392 



COLTTBKIDiE. 



235. WALTERINNESIA. 



Walterinuesia, Lataste, Le Naturaliste, 1887, p. 411. 



Maxillary extending forwards beyond the palatine, with a pair 

 of large grooved fangs ; no other maxillary teeth ; mandibular teeth, 

 anterior largest. Head distinct from neck, with distinct canthus 

 rostralis; eye rather small, with round pupil ; rostral large; nostril 

 between two or three nasals and the int.ernasal ; no loreal. Body 

 cylindrical ; scales smooth or feebly keeled, without pits, in 23 rows 

 (more on the neck) ; ventrals rounded. Tail rather short ; sub- 

 caudals all or most in two rows. 



Egypt. 



1. Walterinnesia segyptia. 



Walterinuesia agyptia, Lataste, I. o. 



Eostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above half as 

 long as its distance from the frontal ; internasals as long as the 

 priefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, as long as 

 its distance from the rostral, two thirds the length of the parietals; 

 posterior nasal in contact with the single prasocular, which is more 

 than twice as long as deep ; two postoculars and a subocular ; 

 temporals 2 + 3, lower anterior very large ; seven upper labials, 

 third and fourth entering the eye, third, fourth, and fifth deepest ; 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are longer than the posterior. Scales in 23 rows (27 on the neck), 

 feebly keeled on the posterior part of the body and on the tail. 

 Ventrals 189-197 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 45-48, first 2 to 8 

 single, rest divided. Blackish brown above, paler brown beneath. 



Total length 1170 miUim. ; tail 170. 



Egypt. 



a. c? (V. 189; C. 48). Cairo. Dr. Walter Innes [P.]. 



236. HEMIBUNGARUS. 



Elaps, part., Bum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gin. vii. p. 1191 (1864) ; Gunth. 

 Cat. Col. Sn. p. 229 (1868) ; Jan, Sev. ^ Mag. Zool. 1868, p. 516. 

 Callophis, part., Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 81. 

 Hemibungarus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 637. 



Maxillary bone extending forwards beyond the palatine, with a 

 pair of large grooved poison-fangs and one to three small solid 

 teeth ; mandibular teeth subequal. Prsefrontal bones in contact 

 with each other on the median line. Head small, not distinct from 

 neck ; eye small, with round pupil ; nostril between two nasals ; 

 no loreal. Body cj'lindrioal, much elongate ; scales smooth, without 

 pits, in 13. or 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail short ; suboaudals 

 in two rows. 



South-eastern Asia. 



