512 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Cape Colony : Cape Peninsula (Finlay, Sclater) ; Tulbagh ( Klein - 

 Schmidt) ; Touw's Eiver (Le F6vre) ; Knysna (Groom) ; 

 Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Eobertson (Melle) ; Worcester 

 (Paynter) ; Clanwilliam (Schlechter) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; 

 George (Leipoldt) ; Caledon (Burges) ; Uitenhage (O'Neil) ; 

 Port Elizabeth (Moorhouse) ; Kimberley (French) ; Tsomo, 

 Transkei (Watermeyer). 



Orange Eiver Colony : Harrismith (Eoss). 



Transvaal: Lydenburg (Kilgour) ; Krugersdorp (Watson). 



2. Teimerorhinus trit^niatus. 



Bhagerrhis tritceniata, Giinth., Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) i., 1868, 



p. 423, pi. xix. fig. H. 

 Tritnerorhinus tritaniatus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 139. 

 Northern parts of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Tropical Africa. 

 Cape Colony : Barkly West (Tucker) ; Kuruman (Moffat). 

 Southern Ehodesia : Salisbury (Marshall). 



19. EHAMPEIOPHIS. 

 Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 624 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. U\. 



A single Species in South Africa. 



1. Ehamphiophis multimaculatus. 



Goronella miiitimaculata, Smith, 111., Eept. pi. Ixi. 



Bhamphiojphis muitimaciilatus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 148. 



Northern parts of Cape Colony, Orange Eiver Colony, German 

 South-West Africa. 



Cape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Howard) ; Kenhardt 

 (Schlechter) ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; Burghersdorp (Kanne- 

 meyer). 



Orange Eiver Colony : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



20. PSAMMOPHIS. 

 Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 521 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 152. 



Ten Species in South Africa. 



I. Scales in 17 rows; ventrals 154-198. 



A. Anal entire ; two praeoculars P. )iot(>stirlu.i. 



B. Anal divided (rarely entire). 



1. Prseocular extensively in contact with the frontal ; 



forehead concave; two labials entering the eye .. P. furcdtni^. 



2. Prseocular narrowly in contact with or separated 

 from the frontal. 



(1. Two prseoculars ; rostral considerably broader 

 than deep. 



