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167. CHLOPELTIS. 
Malpolon, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 29 (1826). : 
Psammophis, part., Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 521; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. 201 (1837). 
Ceelopeltis, Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 189 (1830) ; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. 
Gén. vii. p. 1129 (1854); Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 188 (1858) ; 
Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 89 (1863) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 
1891, p. 151. 
Rhabdodon, Fleischm. Dalm. nov. Serp. Gen. p. 26 (1881). 
Bothriophis, Fichw. Reise Kasp. M. u. Kauk.i. p. 748 (1887). 
Rhagerhis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1862, p. 274. 
Coelopeltis, part., Jan, Elenco sist, Ofid. p. 89 (1863). 
Maxillary teeth 10 to 17, subequal, followed by one or two very 
large grooved fangs situated below the posterior border of the eye; , 
anterior mandibular teeth strongly enlarged. Head distinct from 
neck, with more or less prominent snout, angular canthus rostralis, 
and projecting supraocular ; eye large, with round pupil; nostril a 
crescentic slit in a single or divided nasal; frontal narrow. Body 
cylindrical; scales smooth, more or less distinctly grooved longi- 
tudinally in the adult, with apical pits, in 17 or 19 rows; ventrals 
rounded. Tail moderate or rather long ; subcaudals in two rows. 
Southern Europe, South-western Asia, North Africa. 
Maxillary and mandible of Celopeltis monspessulana. 
1. Celopeltis monspessulana. 
~ Coluber monspessulanus, Hermann, Obs. Zool. i. p. 283 (1804) ; 
Duges, Ann. Se. Nat. (2) iii. 1885, p. 187, pl. Vb. figs. 1-6. 
Natrix lacertina, Wagl. in Spizx, Serp. Bras. p. 18, pl. v. (1824). 
Malpolon lacertinus, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 59 (1826). 
Coluber rupestris, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Mér. iii. p. 91 (1826). 
—— insignitus, I. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Rept. pp. 147, 151, pl. vii. 
fig. 6, and Suppl. pl. v. figs. 2 & 3 (1827). 
— esculapii, Dugés, Ann. Sc. Nat. xii. 1827, p. 394, pl. xlvi. 
ae 
pete fuscus, Fleischm. Dalm. nov. Serp, Gen. p. 26, pl. ii. 
(1881). | 
Coluber fuscus, Dwigubsky, Nat. Hist. Russ., Amph. p. 26 (1832). 
—— virens, Dwigubsky, l. c. 
— vermiculatus, Ménétr. Cat. Rais. p. 72 (1832). 
tara. Fisch. de Waldh. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. iv. 1882, 
p. 574, 
