177. DISPHOLIDUS. 187 
forked ectopterygoid ; teeth small, 7 or 8, followed by three very 
large grooved fangs situated below the eye; mandibular teeth 
subequal. Head distinct from neck, with distinct canthus rostralis ; 
eye very large, with round pupil; nasal entire. Body slightly 
compressed ; scales very narrow, oblique, more or less strongly 
keeled, with apical pits, in 19 or 21 rows; ventrals rounded or 
obtusely angulate laterally. Tail long; subcaudals in two rows. 
Tropical and South Africa. 
u5 
Skull of Dispholidus typus. 
1. Dispholidus typus. 
Bucephalus typus, Smith, Zool. Journ. iv. 1829, p. 441; Dum. & 
Bibr. vii. p. 877 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. 32, pl. iv. (1869) ; Peters, 
Reise n. Mossamb, iii. p. 1382 (1882). 
jardinii, Smith, 1. c. p. 442. 
— gutturalis, Smith, 1. c. 
— bellii, Smith, 1. ¢. 
Dispholidus lalandii, Duvernoy, Ann. Sc. Nat. xxvi. 1832, p. 150, and 
xxx. 1833, p. 24, pl. iii. 
ot colubrina, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 238, pl. ix. figs. 14-16 
(1887). 
Bucephalus capensis, Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pls. x.—xiii. 
(1841) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 143 (1858) ; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges, xii. 
1881, p. 397. 
: viridis, Smith, 1. c. pl.iii, 
Dendrophis pseudodipsas, Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 40, pl. iv. 
fig. 2 (1849). 
