. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Fig. 40. Monopeltis guentheri (Type after Boulenger). Remarks. The unique type of M. boulengeri came from the same general region as numerous examples of guentheri. It was differenti- ated by the presence of a preocular (the scale called by that name in Boulenger's description of guentheri is elsewhere called an ocular) the location of which was indicated by a suture in the figured type of guentheri. In an example ( 18015) received from the Paris Museum, labeled 'Congo', the right side of the head is boulengeri,
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Fig. 40. Monopeltis guentheri (Type after Boulenger). Remarks. The unique type of M. boulengeri came from the same general region as numerous examples of guentheri. It was differenti- ated by the presence of a preocular (the scale called by that name in Boulenger's description of guentheri is elsewhere called an ocular) the location of which was indicated by a suture in the figured type of guentheri. In an example ( 18015) received from the Paris Museum, labeled 'Congo', the right side of the head is boulengeri, the left guentheri. The annuli in the types of both species were the same, but there were 38 (instead of 28-32) segments in a midbody annulus of boulengeri. At Stanley Falls specimens occur with both one or two shields covering the head. Monopeltis schoutedeni Witte 1933c. Monopeltis Schoutedeni Witte, Revue Zool. Bot. Afr., 23, p. 170, fig. 2: Kunungu, Lake Leopold II, Belgian Congo. 1933m. Witte, p. 73, figs. 1-4. Description. One large shield covering the head; a pair of occipitals; a preocular; ocular small, eye indistinguishable; rostral separating the nasals, bordering the nostrils; nasals elongate, apparently not reaching. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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