MACEOPEOTODON CUCULLATUS. 
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Macroprolodon cucullatus, Blgr. Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 149; Cat. Snakes B. M. iii. 1890, 
p. 175 ; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 19 ; Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, pp. 109 & 
112; Werner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xliv. 1894, p. 85; Boettger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien, xlvi. 1890, p. 279. 
1 <£ . Maryut District. 
1 2 . Earnleh, near Alexandria. 
1 2 . Mandara. Dr. Walter Innes. 
1 ?. Abukir. 
Rostral much broader than high, almost semicircular, slightly visible from above ; 
internasals quadrangular, large, forming a broad suture with the rostral, nearly as long 
as the praefrontals ; prefrontals square ; frontal twice as long as broad, elongately 
shield-shaped, lateral margins very feebly concave ; parietals longer than the frontal, 
rounded behind, slightly divergent ; loreal considerably longer than high ; preeocular 
broadly excluded from the frontal; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 and 2-4-2; 
eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the orbit, the sixth either in contact 
with the parietal or feebly separated from it. 19 (Egypt) to 25 rows of smooth 
scales across the body; ventrals 152-195; anal 1/1; subcaudals 32-57. General 
colour greyish or buff-olive, with a dorsal series of brownish or blackish spots separated 
by pale yellowish or greyish interspaces, the central scales margined with black, and 
also more or less alternate rows of scales along the sides similarly margined, also the 
angle of every second ventral. Upper surface of the head wholly brownish or blackish, 
or only so from between the eyes backwards to the nape, and downwards on to the 
side of the neck behind the gape ; in particoloured heads a dusky band common to 
the internasals and praefrontals and backwards to the eye, and from below the eye 
backwards in a narrow line to the dark colour of the nape. Rostral and upper labials 
yellow. Under surface of the ventrals and subcaudals yellowish or coral-red, either 
wholly so or the centres marked with dusky square spots, in groups of two ventrals, 
the intervening ventral with a mesial narrow dusky band connecting two groups. 
Measurements &c. 
o/M. 
cucullatus, 7s. Geoff. St. 
-mi. ( 
in millim.). 
Relation 
Sex. 
Total 
length. 
Tail. 
Ven- 
trals. 
Anai. 
Cau- 
dals. 
Scales. 
Upper 
labials. 
Labials 
entering 
orbit. 
Pras- 
oculars. 
of prse- 
oculars 
to 
frontal. 
Post- 
oculars. 
Tem- 
porals. 
Loreal. 
Localitj'. 
d 
365 
64 
153 
i/i 
48 
19 
8 
4&5 
1 
B.Ex. 
2 
1 + 2 
1 
Maryut 
District. 
s 
400 
64 
164 
i/i 
42 
19 
8 
4&5 
1 
B.Ex. 
2 
1 + 2 
1 
Earnleh . 
s 
370 
55 
168 
i/i 
43 
19 
8 
4&5 
1 
B. Ex. 
2 
1 + 2 
1 
Mandara. 
2 
383 
60 
167 
i/i 
43 
19 
8 
4&5 
1 
B. Ex. 
2 
1 + 2 1 
Abukir. 
