Total length, 1,170 millimetres; tail 170.
Habitat: Egypt.
Fig. 34.—Skull of Dendraspis viridis (Poisonous West African Colubrine). (After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.)
(g) Dendraspis.
([Fig. 34].)
Maxillary bone curved upwards, bearing a pair of powerful poison-fangs, not fissured, and not followed by other teeth; a long tooth at the end of each ramus of the mandible. Head narrow, elongate; eye moderate, with round pupil; nostril between two shields. Body slightly compressed; scales smooth, narrow, very oblique, in 13-23 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail long; subcaudals in 2 rows.
(1) D. viridis.—211-225 ventral scales; 107-119 subcaudals.
Colour uniform olive-green. Shields on the head edged with black; lips yellow; belly and tail yellow, with scales and shields bordered with black.
Total length, 1,830 millimetres; tail 460.