CYCLOCORUS 



105 



hrevirostris Peters, a young and an old specimen, are from 

 "Philippines," collected by Wallis.* 



Table 16. — -Measurements and scale counts of Oxyrhahdmm leporinmn 



(Giintlie-}-) . 



" Badly mutilated. 



'' Type ; counts from Boulenger, loc. cit, 



'■ Type of Stenognathtcs' hrevirostris Peters ; from Peters. 



Genus CYCLOCORUS Dumeril and Bibron 



Lycodon, part., Reinhardt, Kongl. Danske Vid. Selsk. Af handl. 1 

 (1843) 241. 



Cyelocorus Dumeril and Bibron, Mem. Ac. Sci. 23 (1853) 460; Erp. 

 Gen. 7 (1854) 385; GtJNTHER, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus. (1858) 

 208; Jan, Elenco Sist. CM. (1863) 95; Boulenger, Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus. 1 (1893) 326; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 

 114. 



"Maxillary and dentary bones angularly bent inwards an- 

 teriorly; three or four anterior teeth, in both .jaws, increasing 

 in size, the last large and fang-like, followed after an interspace 

 by 12 or 13 small maxillary teeth. Head slightly distinct from 



* May represent a distinct species. 



