177. DISPHOIIBTTS. 187 



forked ectopterygoid ; teeth small, 7 or 8, followed by three very 

 large grooved fangs situated below the eye ; mandibular teeth 

 subequal. Head distinct from neck, with distinct oanthus rostralis ; 

 eye very large, with round pupil ; nasal entire. Body sUghtly 

 compressed ; scaJes very narrow, oblique, more or less strongly 

 keeled, with apical pits, in 19 or 21 rows ; ventrals rounded or 

 obtusely angulate laterally. Tail long ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Fig. 14. 



Skull of DisphoUdus typiis. 



1. Dispholidus typus. 



Bucephalus typus, Smith, Zool. Journ. iv. 1829, p. 441 ; Hum. ^ 



Sihr. vii. p. 877 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Oen. 32, pi. iv. (1869) ; Peters, 



Seise re. Mossamb. iii. p. 1.32 (1882). 



jardinii, Smith, I. c. p. 442. 



gutturalis, Smith, I. c. 



bellii, Smith, I. c. 



Dispholidus lalandii, Buvernoy, Ann. So. Nat. xxvi. 1832, p. 150, and 



XXX. 1833, p. 24, pi. iii. 

 Dendrophis colubrina, Schleg. PTiys. Serp. ii. p. 238, pi. ix. figs. 14-16 



(1837). 

 Bucephalus capensis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Sept. pis. x.-xiii. 



(1841) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 143 (1868) : BoeUg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 



1881, p. 397. 



vindis. Smith, I. c. pi. iii. 



Dendrophis pseudodipsaa, Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 40, pi. iv. 



fig. 2 (1849). 



