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Frontal plate six sided ; the two hinder sides prolonged, and behind form an acute angle. Palpebral 
plates small, four sided ; occipital plates larg'e, six sided, the apex or hindermost side very short ; a 
rather large plate external to hinder extremity of each occipital plate. Nasal plate somewhat five 
sided. Preocular and postocular plates small, sub triangular. Plates of upper lip, exclusive of rostral, 
six, the hindermost very large ; of lower lip, exclusive of mental, six, the third and fourth large ; sub- 
mental plates two pairs, the hinder pair smallest. Scales of body subrhomboidal, or imperfectly six 
sided, imbricate, and arranged in oblique rows, the rows of one side meeting those of the other at an 
acute angle; the number of plates in each row sixteen. Colour of the upper and lateral parts of head, 
clove-brown ; a liver-brown bar across upper part of neck, pointed at each extremity, and separated 
from the colour of the head by the intervention of two small pale sienna-yellow spots. Colour of 
the back and sides intermediate between sienna- yellow and wine-yellow ; of the under parts, pale cream- 
yellow. Abdominal plates 166 ; subcaudal plates 37 . Length from nose to anus, 4 inches 8 lines ; 
length of tail 1 inch. 
Inhabits Kaffirland, to the eastward of the Cape Colony. I have placed this in the genus 
Elapomorphus, Weighman, without being acquainted with the characters of the group further than 
that Mons. Bibron wrote me, before his death, that Calamaria Blumii, Schlegel, was a species of 
Elapomorphus of Weighman. If the species just mentioned belong to this group, the one described 
will also belong to it. 
TEMNORHYNCHUS, n. g. 
Ch. Gen. Head depressed. Lower jaw considerably shorter than the upper. Teeth of maxilla 
small, pointed, thinly set, and of equal length. Rostral plate large, anteriorly produced, the edge 
cutting ; naso-rostral two ; fronto-nasal one ; nasal one ; frenal one ; preocular and postocular each 
two ; submental one pair. Nostril in middle of nasal plate, and a longitudinal groove behind it, as in 
Acontias. Pupil circular. Scales of body slightly imbricate, and in oblique rows ; a double row of 
scales on the under surface of the tail. 
TEMNORHYNCHUS, Smdemallu, n. s. 
Head subovate, the width of the body, the latter subcylindrical, about the thickness of a goose- 
quill, and nearly equal throughout ; tail cylindrical, tapered, and terminated by a sharp-pointed horny 
spine. Rostral plate large and subtriangular ; naso-rostral plates small, triangular, and not contiguous 
internally ; fronto-nasal plate narrow longitudinally, transversely the breadth of the head ; frontal 
plate five-sided, posteriorly pointed, anteriorly truncated; palpebral plates narrow, the hinder extremity 
rather widest; occipital plates somewhat square, edges slightly angled; nasal plates large, sub- 
cordiform, the nostril situated near the middle of each, and the groove which proceeds from it extends 
to the hinder edge of the plate. Frenal plate square ; the preocular and postocular plates very small ; 
the pair of submental plates large, and anterior to them, the first pair of labial scales are contiguous 
internally. Plates of upper lip, exclusive of rostral, seven ; of kwer lip, exclusive of mental plate, 
eight. Eyes small. Scales of the body more or less distinctly six sided, those of the sides largest; 
they are slightly subovate, and arranged in oblique rows, each row, taken transversely, contains 
fifteen scales. Colour of upper surface of head straw-yellow, profusely powdered with brown ; the 
greater part of the frontal plate, and a portion of each occipital plate, sienna-yellow, forming three 
distinct spots on the hindhead. Scales of the back and sides freckled yellow and dull brownish 
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