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6. No small maxillary teeth. 
Scales oblique, strongly keeled ; rostral moderate. 
233. Sepedon, p. 388. 
Scales oblique ; rostral very large, detached on the sides, 
234. Aspidelaps, p. 390. 
Scales not oblique; rostral large .... 235. Walterinnesia, i. 
2. Internasal not bordering the nostril. i 
a. Nasal divided; scales in 13 or 15 rows; one to three 
small maxillary teeth in addition to the poison-fangs. 
236, Hemibungarus, 
[p. 392. 
b. Nasal divided; scales in 13 rows; no small maxillary 
teeth. 
Poison-gland not extending beyond the head. 
237. Callophis, p. 396. 
Poison-gland extending along each side of the anterior third of the 
body ; heart shifted back to the second third of the body. 
: 238. Doliophis, p. 397. 
c. Nasal entire ; scales in 15 rows; postfrontal bone absent. 
One or two small maxillary teeth in addition to the poison-fangs. 
239. Furina, p. 405. 
No small maxillary teeth .......... 240. Homorelaps, p. 408. 
d. Nasal divided; scales in 15 rows; postfrontal bone 
absent ; no small maxillary teeth. 
241. Elaps, p. 411. 
II. Maxillary bone with a strong posterior process, directed back- 
wards and outwards; a large, fang-like anterior mandibular 
tooth, followed by a considerable toothless space; no solid 
maxillary teeth; head narrow; body slender, with the scales 
disposed very obliquely ........ 242. Dendraspis, p. 434. 
214. OGMODON. 
Ogmodon, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 274. 
Labionaris, Brocchi, Bull. Soc. Philom. 6) xii, 1876, p. 94. 
Maxillary extending forwards as far as the palatine, with 8 grooved 
teeth gradually decreasing in length ; mandibular teeth gradually 
decreasing in length. Head small, not distinct from neck; eye very 
small, with round pupil; nostril pierced between the first upper 
labial, two small nasals, and the internasal; prefrontal entering 
the eye; an elongate preocular, separated from the nasal by the 
second labial; no anterior temporal. Body cylindrical; scales 
smooth, without pits, in 17 rows; ventrals rounded, Tail short ; 
subcaudals in two rows. 
Fiji Islands. 
