List of Reptiles and Batracliians of South Africa. 109 



PAET II. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



GEAYIA LUBEICA, sp. nov. 

 Plate, tig. 1, la. 



Rostral broader than deep just visible from above, internasals 

 longer than broad, longer than the praefrontals ; frontal about twice 

 as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 considerably shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; 

 one prae- two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; upper labials eight, 

 fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin- shields which are about the same length as 

 the posterior ; scales in 19 rows on the anterior part of the body ; 

 ventrals 177 ; anal undivided ; tail in the unique specimen incomplete 

 so that the number of subcaudals cannot be given. 



Colour, dark shining black above, a narrow yellow line on either 

 side of head behind the eye ; below yellow with a narrow ill-defined 

 dark line running the whole length of the body along the centre of 

 the ventrals. The two outer row r s of scales spotted and blotched 

 with black. 



Length of type, 800 mm. ; with tail complete would doubtless 

 reach 1,000 mm. 



The colouration and general appearance of this snake differs 

 considerably from that of Grayia smytliii, from which it further 

 differs in the number and arrangement of the temporal and upper 

 labial shields, the higher number of ventrals and the undivided anal. 



From another species described by Dollo (Bull. Mus. Belg. iv. 

 1886, p. 158) as Grayia yiardi, the present species differs in the 

 number of its postoculars described in that form as being three in 

 number, but the description given is too inadequate to make a 

 thorough comparison between the two forms. 



The type and unique specimen (Register No. 2,009) was obtained 

 by ]\Ir. M. Watermeyer at Tsomo in the Transkei district of the 

 eastern part of Cape Colony, and is preserved in the South African 

 Museum. The genus is new to South Africa ; the other species are 

 G. smytliii from West Africa and Angola, G. furcata from the Congo 

 district, and G. giardi from Lake Tanganyika. 



ELASMODACTYLUS NAMAQUENSIS, sp. nov. 

 Plate, fig. 2, 2, 26. 



Body stout, limbs short ; head longer than broad, depressed, quite 

 distinct from the neck ; snout obtuse, longer than the distance of eye 



