. Catalogue of the snakes in the ... Museum. 64. DBNDEOPHIS. 77 about as largo as the parietal shields, all except the outer row keeled; the keels on the two median rows stronger. Ventrals 157-102; anal divided; subcaudals 118-135. Black, the throat and anterior part of the belly yellow. Total length 2200 millim.; tail 500. Costa Rica. 64. DENDROPHIS. Ahictiilla, part., (?m//, Ann. Phil. x. 1825, p. 208. Leptophis, Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p. 328; Jan, Elenco sht. 84(1863). Dendrophls, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 520 ; Boiileng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 337 (1890). Deudropbis, part.,
. Catalogue of the snakes in the ... Museum. 64. DBNDEOPHIS. 77 about as largo as the parietal shields, all except the outer row keeled; the keels on the two median rows stronger. Ventrals 157-102; anal divided; subcaudals 118-135. Black, the throat and anterior part of the belly yellow. Total length 2200 millim.; tail 500. Costa Rica. 64. DENDROPHIS. Ahictiilla, part., (?m//, Ann. Phil. x. 1825, p. 208. Leptophis, Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p. 328; Jan, Elenco sht. 84(1863). Dendrophls, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 520 ; Boiileng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 337 (1890). Deudropbis, part., Wnc/l. Si/st. Amph. p. 182 (1830); Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 220 (1837); Dam. ^ Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 193 (1854); Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 148 (1858); Jan, I. c. p. Bo ; Gimth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 296 (1864). Maxillary teeth 20 to 33, the posterior more or less enlarged, stouter if not longer than the rest; anterior mandibular teeth longest. Head distinct from neck, more or less elongate; eye large, with round pupil. Body elongate, more or less compressed scales smooth, in 13 or 15 rows, narrow, disposed obliquely, with apical pits, those of the vertebral row more or less enlarged ventrals with a suture-like lateral keel and a notch on each side, corresponding to the keel. Tail long; subcaudals in two rows keeled and notched like the ventrals. South-eastern Asia and Australia. Fig. Maxillary and mandible of Dendropkis pictiis. Syno2^sis of the ^^)ec/es. I. Maxillary teeth 20 to 26 ; eye not longer than its distance from the nostril. A. Scales in 15 rows. A single loreal; ventrals 165-190 .... 1. pictus, p. 78. Two loreals ; ventrals 154-171 2. bifrenalis, p. 80. B. Scales in 13 rows. Usually two superposed anterior tem- porals ; ventrals 176-211 3. calligaster, p. 80. Usually a single, much elongate anterior temporal; ventrals 191-220 ; no dark streak on the side of the head 4. inmctulatus, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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