154. OXTBHOPUS. 



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Table showing Numbbes of Scaxbs and Shields. 



* All or most single. 



1. Oxyrhopus petolarius. 



Coluber petolariust^ii2222..ilfMS. Ad. Frid. p. 35, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1754_), 

 " owa! Sr20'."p. 387 (1766) ; Baud. Mept. vi. p. 307 (1803). 



pethola, lAtm. S. N. i. p. 387. 



digitalis, Heuss, Mus. Senekenb. i. 1834, p. 148, pi. ix. fig. 1. 



Lycodon petolarius, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 122, pi. iv. figs. 20 



& 21 (1837). 

 (Oxyrhopus) semifasciatus, Tschudi, Faun. Per., JSerp, p. 64, 



pi. -vii. (1846). 

 Oxyrhopus multifasciatus, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1019 (1854). 



spadiceus, Dum. 8f Bibr. t. c. p. 1028. 



immaculatus, Dum. §• Bibr. t. c. p. 1029 ; Ghiichen, in Casteln, 



Anim. Nouv. Amir. Svd, Rept. p. 64, pi. xiii". (1855) ; Oiinth. Cat, 



p. 191 (1858) ; Jan, Icon. G^n. 36, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1870). 



biprseocularis, Dum. 8^ Bibr. t. c. p. 1030 ; Gunth. I. c. 



petolarius, Dum. 8^ Bibr. t. c. p. 1033 ; Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1859, p. 414; Jan, Icon. Gen. 35, pi. vi. fig. 2, & 36, pi. i. figs. 1 



& 2 (1870) ; Cope, Joum. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 132 ; GUnth, 



Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 167 (1895). 

 sebse, Dum. $ Bibr. t. c. p. 1036. 



Eye moderately large, its diameter about half the length of the 

 rsnout, which is rounded and scarcely projecting. Rostral broader 

 ihan deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter than 

 the prsefrontals ; frontal once and one fifth to once and one third 

 as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 as long as or a little shorter than the parietals.; loreal much longer 



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t The name is misspelt " petalarivs" in the ' Systoma Naturae.' 



