45. LTcoPHiDnjM. 337 



Diameter of the eye hardly equal to its dis- 

 tance from the mouth ; rentrals 140- 



150 ; subcaudals 18-28 2. acutirosire, p. 338. 



Diameter of the eye considerably greater 



than its distance from the mouth ; 



ventrals 146 ; subcaudals 30 4. semiannulis,-p. 339. 



Diameter of the eye considerably greater 



than its distance from the mouth ; 



ventrals 164-192 ; subcaudals 30-45 . . 5. capense, p. 339. 

 Diameter of the eye not greater than its 



distance from the mouth ; ventrals 



164-189 ; subcaudals 28-33 6. jacksoni, p. 340. 



** Parietal shields not or but slightly longer than 

 the distance between the frontal and the end of 

 the snout ; subcaudals 37-52. 



Ventrals 164-189 7. irroratum, p. 340. 



Ventrals 190-210 8. semicinctum, p. 341. 



6. Eostral but little broader than deep ; veutrals 206 ; sub- 

 caudals 33 9. abyssinicum,]i.'3'i2. 



2. Seven upper labials, sixth largest ; ventrals 180-198 ; sub- 

 caudals 34-56 10. fasciatum, p. 342. 



II. Subcaudals 72 ; ventrals 225 ; loreal entering the eye. 



11. elapoides, p. 343. 



1. LycopMdium meleagris. (Piatb XXI. fig. 2.) 



Lycophidion horstockii, part., Gunth. Cat. p. 197 (1858), and Ann. 



> Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 427. 

 horstockii, Jan, Icon. Gen. 36, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1870). 



Diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth. 

 Eostral nearly twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; 

 internasals about as large as the nasals ; prsefrontals a little broader 

 than long ; frontal as long as broad, a little shorteir than its dis- 

 tance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer thau deep ; prseocular as large as or larger than the 

 supraocular, broadly in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars, 

 both in contact with the parietal; temporals l-|-2; eight upper 

 labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye, seventh largest ; 

 chin-shields very small, the anterior in contact with four or five 

 lower labials. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 153-155 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 23-32. Black above and beneath ; a white dot on the 

 end of each scale, the scales on the sides white in their posterior 

 moiety ; ventrals edged with white. 



Total length 260 millim. ; tail 25. 



Angola. 



a. 2 (V. 153 ; C. 23). Ambrizette. 



h. Yg. (V. 155; 0. 3:3). Ambriz. Mr. Rich [C.]. 



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