174. MAOEOPEOTODOJSr. 175 



174. MACROPROTODON. 



CoroneUa, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 50 (1837) ; Giinth. Cat. 



Col. Sn. p. 34 (1858). 

 Macroprotodon, Guiclien. Explor. Sc. Alg., Sept. p. 22 (1850) ; 



Bmleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 143. 

 Lycognathus, part., I>um. ^ Bibr. Mim. Ao. Sc. xxiii. 1853, p. 495, 



and Erp. GSn. vii. p. 916 (1854). 

 Psammophylax, part., Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 309. 



Maxillary teeth 10 or 11, fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth 

 enlarged, followed by an interspace, the two posterior again en- 

 larged and grooved, and situated just behind the eye ; mandibular 

 teeth increasing in size to the sixth, which is fang-like and followed 

 by an interspace, the posterior teeth small. Head slightly distinct 

 from neck ; eye rather small, with vertically subelliptic pupil. 

 Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, with apical pits, in 19 to 25 rows ; 

 ventrals rounded. Tail moderate ; subcaudals in two rows. 



Spain and North Africa. 



Fig. 12. 



.Maxillary and mandible oi Macroprotodon cuaullatus. 



1. Macroprotodon cucullatus. 



Coluber cucullatus, I. Qeofr. Bescr. Egypte, Mept. pp. 148 & 151, 



pi. viii, fig. 3 (1827). 

 CoroneUa Isevis, part., Schleg. Phys. Sap. ii. p. 66 (1837). 

 Macroprotodon mauritanicus, Guichen. Explor. Sc. Alg., Sept. p. 22, 



pl. ii. fig. 2 (1850). 

 Lycognathus cucullatus, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 926 (1864) ; Oervais, 



MSm. Ac. Montpell. iii. 1857, p. 511, pl. v. fig. 2. 



tseniatus, Dum. 8^ Bibr. I. c. p. 930. 



textilis, Dum. Sr Bibr. I. c. p. 931. 



CoroneUa cucuUata, Giinth. Cat. p. 35 (1858) ; Strauch, Erp. Alg. 



p. 55 (1862) ; Schreib. Erp. Eur. p. 296, fig. (1875) ; Bcettg. Abh. 



Senck. Ges. xii. 1880, pp. 374 & 387, and xiii. 1883, p. 96, and 



in Kobelt, Seis. Alg. Tunis, p. 457 (1885). 



brevis, Gunth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 68. 



tseniata, Strauch, I. c. p. 57. 



textilis, Strauch, I. c. 



Psammophylax cucullatus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 



p. 312, and Icon. G^n. 19, pl. i. figs. 3 & 4 (1866). 

 Macroprotodon maroccanus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. 1882, 



p. 27. 

 cucullatus, Boukng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 143. 



