264 COITJEETD^. 



IV. Maceopophis. — Maxillary teeth 35-40, posterior but slightly 

 eBlarged. Eye very large. Body very slender. 



Fig. 16. 



Maxillary of Tropidoiiotus hypomelas. 



73. Tropidonotus hypomelas. 



Tropidonotus hypomelas, G'dnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 130, 

 %• 



Eye very large. Body very slender. Eostral twice as broad as 

 deep, scarcely visible from above ; internasals longer than broad, 

 broadly truncate anteriorly, as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal 

 once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; 

 two prse- and three postoctdars; temporals 2 + .3; nine upper 

 labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in 17 rows, all strongly keeled. Ventralsl96; anal divided; 

 subcaudals 99-105. Brownish olive above, with small black spots, 

 and a series of pale spots along each side of the back on the pos- 

 terior two thirds of the body; upper labials white, with black 

 sutures ; belly whitish anteriorly, black or blackish posteriorly, 

 with a median series of black spots, one on each shield. 



Total length 960 millim. ; tail 270. 



Duke of York Island and New Britain. 



a. (S (V. 196 ; C. 99). Duke of York Island. Eev. G. Brown [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 J. c? (V. 196: C. 105). New Britain. Museum Godeffroy. 



74. Tropidonotus dendrophiops. 



Tropidonotus dendrophiops, Giinth. Ann. 8^ Mag. N. H. (5) li. 1883, 



p. 136, fig. 

 hypomelas ?, F. Milller, Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1883, 



p. 286. 



Eye very large. Habit slender. Bostral twice as broad as deep, 

 just visible from above ; internasals longer than broad, broadly 

 truncate anteriorly, nearly as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal once 

 and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 

 the snout ; loreal square ; one or two pree- and three postoculars ; 

 temporals 2-f-3; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering 

 the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 



