174, MACROPROTODON. 175 
174. MACROPROTODON. 
Coronella, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p, 50 (1837) ; Giinth. Cat. 
Col. Sn. p. 34 (1858). 
Macroprotodon, Gutchen. Explor. Sc. Alg., Rept. p. 22 (1850); 
Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. ais 8 s 143. ax 
Lycognathus, part., Dum. § Bibr. Mém. Ac. Se. xxiii, 1853, p. 495, 
and Erp. Gén. vii. p. 916 (1854). i 
Psammophylax, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 309. 
Maxillary teeth 10 or 11, fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth 
enlarged, followed by an interspace, the two posterior again en- 
larged and grooved, and situated just behind the eye ; mandibular 
teeth increasing in size to the sixth, which is fang-like and followed 
by an interspace, the posterior teeth small. Head slightly distinct 
from neck; eye rather small, with vertically subelliptic pupil. 
Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, with apical pits, in 19 to 25 rows; 
ventrals rounded. Tail moderate; subcaudals in two rows. 
Spain and North Africa. 
Maxillary and mandible of Macroprotodon cucullatus. 
1. Macroprotodon cucullatus. 
Coluber cucullatus, I. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Rept. pp. 148 & 151, 
- pl. viii. fig. 3. (1827). 
Coronella levis, part., Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 65 (1837). 
Macroprotodon mauritanicus, Guichen. Explor. Sc. Alg., Rept. p. 22, 
pl. ii. fig. 2 (1850). 
Lycognathus cucullatus, Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 926 (1854) ; Gervais, 
_ Mém. Ac. Montpell. iii. 1857, p. 511, pl. v. fig. 2. 
—— teniatus, Dum. § Bibr. l.c. p. 930. 
textilis, Dum. & Bibr. l.c. p. 931. 
Coronella cucullata, Giinth. Cat. p. 35 (1858); Strauch, Erp. Alg. 
p. 55 (1862) ; Schreib. Erp. Eur. p. 296, fig. (1875); Betty. Abh. 
Senck. Ges, xii. 1880, pp. 874 & 387, and xiii. 1883, p. 96, and 
in Kobelt, Reis. Alg. Tunis, p. 457 (1885). 
— brevis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) ix. 1862, p. 58. 
—— teniata, Strauch, 1. ¢. p. 57. 
—— textilis, Strauch, 1. ¢. ‘ 
Psammophylax cucullatus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 
p- 312, and Icon. Gén. 19, pl.i. figs. 3. & 4 (1866). 
sae a maroccanus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. 1882, 
p. 27. 
— cucullatus, Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 143. 
