480 JOHN HEWITT. 



Hemisns marmoratuin Pet. 



Hemisus marmoratiim Pet.; Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr. Sal., 

 p. 178. 1882. 

 Taken at Tsessebe Siding, Francistown (E. C. Wilmot) ; the 

 first record of this species from S. Africa. 



Rana natalensis Smith. 



Rana natalensis Smith ; Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr. Sal., 

 p. 30. 1882. 



Taken at Pirie, November, 1912 (Miss F. Ross) ; the most 

 western record for this species. 



OPHIDIA. 



Calamelaps polylepis Boc. 



Calamelaps polylepis Boc; Boulenger. Brit. Mus. Cat. Snakes, 



III, p. 246. 1896. 

 ? Calamelaps warreni Boul. ; Annals Natal Mus.. I, p. 234. 1908. 



This species has not previously been recorded as such from 

 S. Africa. It was first known to me from Hectorspruit (F. 

 Streeter), the specimen having 194 ventrals ; more recently 

 Mr. Gr. Arnold, of the Rhodesia Museum, sent me the speci- 

 men from Empandene (Rev. J. O'Neil), which was recorded by 

 Mr. Chubbi under the name of C. concolor ^m?^/i, but which 

 now proves to be a very fine example of C. polylepis, having 

 twenty-one rows of body scales, 200 ventral scales and a total 

 length of 690 mm. A year ago I recorded C. warreni Boul. 

 from Empandene, basing the determination on a specimen only 

 350 mm. long and having nineteen rows of body-scales and 172 

 ventrals- ; this in all probability is merely the young of the 

 same species as the foi-mer specimen. Now, the type of C . 

 warreni is recorded as only 235 mm. long, and is almost 

 certainly a very young specimen. Judging from his recently 

 published key to the S. African Ophidia, Mr. Boulenger^ is 



1 Chubb, E. C. ' Annual Report Rhodesia Museum,' 1909. 



2 Hewitt, J., ' Records Albany Museum,' ii, p. 276. 



^ Boulenger, G. A., ' Ann. S. African Mus.,' v, p. 516. 



