Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . ct with nasal. Mandible -withoutcoronoid bone. Teethin jaAvs, palate, and pra^maxillary. A single genus, inhabiting South-eastern Asia. 1. XENOPELTIS. Xenopeltis, Beinw. in Boie, /.s/.s-, 1827, p. 564 ; Bum. ^-Bibr. Erp. Gen. \\\. ^. m (1854); Giinth. Bept. Brit. hid. p. 180 (1864); Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 57 (1865) ; Boukny. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 276 (1890).Tortrix, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 1 (1837). Teeth small, equal, closely set, and very numerous (4 on eachside of the proemaxillary, 33-38 in each maxillary, 35 or 36 i
Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . ct with nasal. Mandible -withoutcoronoid bone. Teethin jaAvs, palate, and pra^maxillary. A single genus, inhabiting South-eastern Asia. 1. XENOPELTIS. Xenopeltis, Beinw. in Boie, /.s/.s-, 1827, p. 564 ; Bum. ^-Bibr. Erp. Gen. \\\. ^. m (1854); Giinth. Bept. Brit. hid. p. 180 (1864); Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 57 (1865) ; Boukny. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 276 (1890).Tortrix, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 1 (1837). Teeth small, equal, closely set, and very numerous (4 on eachside of the proemaxillary, 33-38 in each maxillary, 35 or 36 ineach ramus of the mandible). Dentary bone attached looselyto the apex of the articular and movable on it. Head notdistinct from neck; eye small, with vertically elliptic between two small nasals; frontal in contact with alarge agygous interparietal shield, which is in the middle betweenfour parietals. A mental groove. Body cylindrical; scales smooth,in 15 rows; ventrals large; tail short, subcaudals in two row^s. South-eastern Asia. 168 XENOPELTID^,. pIiV
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