308 THE REPTILES OE EGYPT. 
MACROPROTODON. 
Macroprotodon, Guichenot, Expl. Sc. Alg., Sc. Phys., Zool. 1850, p. 22. 
Body cylindrical, moderately long ; tail rather short, about one-fifth or one-sixth the 
total length ; snout short, broad, depressed ; rostral much broader than high ; nostril 
between two plates ; eye small, slightly vertically elliptic ; dorsal scales with apical 
pits, smooth, in 19 to 25 rows ; ventrals rounded ; anal divided. Maxillary teeth in 
two groups : five or six in the anterior group, the last two enlarged, and followed 
by a wide interspace ; the first four of the second group small, the last two much 
enlarged, fang-like and grooved, placed immediately behind the eye. Mandibular teeth 
in two groups : the first five small, but increasing in size from before backwards, 
the last much enlarged, strong and fang-like, and followed by a wide interspace ; the 
nine or ten teeth of the second group small, decreasing in size posteriorly. 
Macroprotodon cucullatus, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hilaire. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 5.) 
La Couleuvre a capuchon, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 148, 
pi. viii. figs. 3-3 i. 
Coluber cucullatus, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 151. 
Coronella lavis, part., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. ii. 1837, p. 65. 
Macroprotodon mauritanicus, Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) x. 1848, p. 205 ; Guicben. Explor. Sc. 
de l'Algerie, Sc. Phys., Zool. v. 1850, p. 22. 
Lycognathus cucullatus, Dum. & Bibr. vii. 1854, p. 926; Gervais, Mem. Ac. Montpell. iii. 1857, 
p. 511, pi. v. fig. 2. 
Lycognathus taniatus, Dum. & Bibr. vii. 1854, p. 930. 
Lycognathus textilis, Dum. & Bibr. vii. 1854, p. 931. 
Coronella cucullata, Giinth. Cat. Snakes B. M. 1858, p. 35; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 470; 
Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 55 ; Schreiber, Herp. Europ. 1875, 
p. 296, fig. 53; Boettger, Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1880, pp. 374, 387, et xiii. 1883, p. 96 ; et in 
Kobelt's Reiseerin. Alg. u. Tunis, 1885, p. 457 ; Konig, Verh. (S.B.) nat. Ver. Bonn, 1892, 
p. 23; Olivier, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii. 1894, p. 120. 
Coronella brevis, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 58. 
Psammophylax cucullatus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. Modena, ii. 1863, p. 309 ; Icon. Gen. 
livr. 19, 1866, pi. i. fig. 3. 
Coronella taniata, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 57. 
Coronella textilis, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 57. 
Psammophylax cucullatus, var. textilis, Jan, Icon. Gen. livr. 19, 1866, pi. i. fig. 4. 
? Oxyrhopus scolopax, Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 120. 
Macroprotodon maroccanus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1882, p. 27. 
Coronella {Macroprotodon) brevis, Reichenoiv, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1883, p. 149. 
