348 COLUBRID. 
48. LYCODON. 
Lycodon, part., Boie, ies, 1827, p. 521; Wagl. Be pasty mee. i ae 186 
(1830) ; Schieg. P eye ii. p. 104 (1887) ; 
Gén, vii. p. 367 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p . 201 s Bil 4 
Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 95 (1863) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 315 
(1864). 
ophites Wagl. l. c. p. 186; Dum. § Bibr. t. ec. p. 897 ; Giinth. ll. ee. 
aoe 206. 990 Jan, l. ¢. 
is, Wagl. lc. ape 191; Dum. § Bibr. t. c. p. 889; Giinth. Ul. ec. 
7,323; Jan, l. c. p. ‘94. 
“et Dum. §& Bibr. Mém, Ac. Se, xxiii. 1853, p. 461, and — 
Erp. Gén. vii. p. 894. 
Leptorhytaon, Giinth., ll. ce. pp. 205, 321. 
Tetragonosoma, Giinth. il. ec. pp. 253, 820, 
Tytleria, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. e 66 (1868). 
I TON Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 291 (1890). 
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Maxillary and mandible of Lycodon aulicus. 
Fig. 23. 
Maxillary bent inwards anteriorly in the adult, the three to six 
anterior teeth increasing in size, fang-like, and separated by a 
toothless interspace from the rest, seven to fifteen in number, — 
which increase in size posteriorly; anterior mandibular teeth 
longest, fang-like. Head not or but slightly distinct from neck, 
more or less depressed; eye small or moderate, with vertically 
elliptic pupil; nostril large or rather large. Body more or less 
elongate, cylindrical or slightly compressed ; scales smooth or keeled, 
in 17 or 19 rows, with apical pits; ventrals with or without a 
lateral keel. Tail moderate; subcaudals single or double. 
Southern Asia. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. A preocular, separating the eye from the prefrontal. 
A. Scales smooth. 
1, Scales in 17 rows; subcaudals usually in two rows. 
a. Ventrals not angulate ; anal divided. 
a. Nostril between two nasals. 
8 upper labials....... ie Be A nc whe ch ha 1. striatus, p. 349. 
9 or 10 upper labiahe u.viincviaeth onus 2. jara, p. 350. 
B. Nasal single ............ 3, tessellatus, p. 351. 
