Quadrate not longer than supratemporal; maxillary little longer than quadrate, strongly curved in front of prefrontal

Macroprotodon.

Quadrate longer than supratemporal; maxillary little longer than quadrate, nearly straight in front of prefrontal

Tarbophis.

Fig. 10—Skull of Vipera lebetina. (From British Museum Catalogue of Snakes)

Lettering of the bones as in Fig. [3]

2. Maxillary much abbreviated and erectile; supratemporal not half as long as skull; mandible much longer than skull; basioccipital with a strong process.

Maxillary bone solid