392 COLUBRID, 
235. WALTERINNESIA. 
Walterinnesia, Zataste, Le Naturaliste, 1887, p..411. 
Maxillary extending forwards beyond the palatine, with a pair 
of large grooved fangs ; no other maxillary teeth ; mandibular teeth, 
anterior largest. Head distinct from neck, with distinct canthus 
rostralis ; eye rather small, with round pupil; rostral large; nostril 
between two or three nasals and the internasal; no loreal. Body 
cylindrical ; scales smooth or feebly keeled, without pits, in 28 rows 
(more on the neck); ventrals rounded. Tail rather short; sub- 
caudals all or most in two rows. 
Egypt. 
1. Walterinnesia egyptia. 
Walterinnesia egyptia, Lataste, 1. c. 
Rostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above half as 
long as its distance from the frontal; internasals as long as the 
preefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, as long as 
its distance from the rostral, two thirds the length of the parietals ; 
posterior nasal in contact with the single preocular, which is more 
than twice as long as deep; two postoculars and a subocular; 
temporals 243, lower anterior very large; seven upper labials, 
third and fourth entering the eye, third, fourth, and fifth deepest ; 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are longer than the posterior. Scales in 23 rows (27-on the neck), 
feebly keeled on the posterior part of the body and on the tail. 
Ventrals 189-197; anal divided; subcaudals 45-48, first 2 to 8 
single, rest divided. Blackish brown above, paler brown beneath. 
Total length 1170 millim. ; tail 170. 
Egypt. 
a. od (V. 189; C. 48). Cairo. Dr. Walter Innes [P.]. 
236. HEMIBUNGARUS. 
Elaps, part., Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. p. 1191 (1854); Giinth. 
Cat. Col. Sn. p. 229 (1858); Jan, Rev. § Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 516. 
Oallophis, part., Gtinth. Proc, Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 81. 
Hemibungarus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 637, 
Maxillary bone extending forwards beyond the palatine, with a 
pair of large grooved poison-fangs and one to three small solid 
teeth; mandibular teeth subequal. Prefrontal bones in contact 
with each other on the median line. Head small, not distinct from 
neck; eye small, with round pupil; nostril between two nasals ; 
no loreal. Body cylindrical, much elongate; scales smooth, without 
pits, in 13 or 15 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; subcaudals 
in two rows. 
South-eastern Asia, 
