. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 160. TOMonoN. 121 Head distinct from neck; eye moderate, with round pupil; nasal efltire or semidivided. Body cj'lindrical; scales oblique, smooth, with apical pits, in 17 or 19 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate X)T short; subcaudals in two rows. South America,. Maxillary and mandible of Tomodon ocellatns. 1. Tomodon dorsatus. Tomodon dorsatum, Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 934 (1854) ; Gimth. Cat. p, 53 (1858); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 323, and Icon. GH. 19, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1866). Opisthoplus degener
. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 160. TOMonoN. 121 Head distinct from neck; eye moderate, with round pupil; nasal efltire or semidivided. Body cj'lindrical; scales oblique, smooth, with apical pits, in 17 or 19 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate X)T short; subcaudals in two rows. South America,. Maxillary and mandible of Tomodon ocellatns. 1. Tomodon dorsatus. Tomodon dorsatum, Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 934 (1854) ; Gimth. Cat. p, 53 (1858); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 323, and Icon. GH. 19, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1866). Opisthoplus degener, Peters, Sitzb. Ak. Berl. 1882, p. 1149, fig. Snout short, very convex. Rostral broader than deep, just visible fi-om above ; internasals as long as or a little shorter than the prse- .frontals; frontal once and' one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; no loreal; nasal elongate and in contact with â¢the praeooular, which is single ; two or three postoculars ; temporals 1+2; seven (exceptionally six) upper labials, third and fourth (or second and third) entering the eye; chin-shields short, the anterior in contact with four or five lower labials. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 134-143; anal divided; subcaudals 53-62. Brown or olive above, with a yellow vertebral stripe which may be confined â to the nape; small blackish spots may be present on the back; an oblique dark streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth; .yellowish or pale olive beneath, uniform or speckled with darker. Total length 610 millim.; tail 150. Brazil. a. S (V. 136; 0. 62). Rio Janeiro. A. Fry. Esq. [ b-c. d (V. 139; C. ?) & Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Ihering [0.]. hgr. (V. 184; 0. 63). 2. Tomodon ocellatns. Tomodon ocellatum, Dum. S/- Bibr. vii. p. 938 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 323, and Icon. GSn. 19, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1866). Snout short, very convex. Rostral broader than deep, just
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