656 DR. Jr. A.-yDERSOX OX EEPTlLES AND [June 18, 



19. CCEIOPELTIS MOILENSIS, EeUSS. 



Coluber moilettsis, Eeuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 142, pi. vii. 

 fig. 1 a & 6. 



Coelopeltis producta, Gervais, Ac. Sc. et Lettres de MontpelHer, 

 iii. 1857, p. 512, pi. r. fig. 3. 



Rhagerhis producta, Peters, Monat. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 275. 



Snout Unner ^'^.bials 



Sex. to Tail. Ventrals. Auals. Caudals. Scales. , f • i entering 



vent. ■ orbit. 



?.. 610 139 176 1/1 53 17 8 4&5 



Kelation of 



Sub- Prae- prseocular Post- m i -w i t i 



hex. 1 1 J 1 Temporals. Nasal, Loreal. 



oculars, oculars and oculars. ^ 



frontal. 



2.. 1 B. Ex.' 3+3 2+3 1 1 



Recorded for the first time. The coloration is of the usual tj'pe 

 met with on the African coast. 



" This specimen was given me by Captain Xurse, 13th Bombay 

 Xative Infantry. It was killed by one of the sepoys of the regiment 

 when retiu;ning from field-firing." 



20. Tabbophis gfenthebi, u. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Dipsas obtusa, Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (5 ser.) xx. 1887, 

 p. 407. 



1 cf, 1 2- Lahej. 



Snout not so broad or rounded at the point as in Tarbophis 

 obtusiis, and less broad than in T. rlunopoma ", but truncated as in 

 the latter species. The rostral is much broader than in T. olfusus, 

 and more rounded in its upper outline, and in this latter respect it 

 more resembles T. rhinopoma than T. obtusus. The nostril is a 

 single plate, with a cleft below it, as in the latter species ; whereas 

 in the former the nostril is perforated in a single nasal and has no 

 cleft. The length of the frontal equals the distance between its 

 anterior border and the tip of the snout, while in T. obtusus the 

 length of the frontal considerably exceeds that interval, whereas 

 in T. rhinopjoma it falls short of it. In the former the lateral 

 margins of the frontal are slightly concave, and in the latter 

 convex ; whereas in this form this shield has very slightly concave 

 lateral borders, and is altogether broader than in T. obtusus. The 

 greatest breadth, anteriorly, of the frontal equals the length of its 

 supraorbital suture, while in T. obtusus it considerably exceeds the 

 length of that suture, whereas in T. rhinopoma it equals the 

 length of both supraorbital and parietal sutures. The parietals in 

 their proportions exceed those of T. obtusus and of T. rhinop)oma, 

 as their extreme length nearly equals that of the frontal and 

 parietals combined, whereas, in these two species, the parietals equal 



^ Broadly excluded. 



■^ Conf. Boettger, Radde's Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. 1886, p. 72 ; Boulenger, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, (2 ser.) vol. sv. (xxxv.) 30 Marzo, 1893, p. 7, et Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. See, May 1895, p. S2o. 



