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8 upper labials, S entering the eye P. trcniiivaaliensis. 



9 upper labials, '2 entering the eye P. trigrammus. 



9 upper labials, 3 entering the eye 7'. boca<iii. 



h. A single prseocular ; rostral as deep as broad or 



slightly broader than deep ; two labials entering 



the eye. 

 Frontal, in the middle, narrower than the supraocular ; sub- 



caudals 90-11(5 P. sihildiiti. 



Frontal, in the middle, nearly as broad as the supraocular ; 



subeaudals 64-95 P- brecirostris. 



II. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Praeocular extensively in contact with the frontal ; ventrals 



165-177 P.JuU,e. 



Praeocular not reaching the frontal ; ventrals 136-155 . . . . P. criicifer. 

 III. Scales in 13 rows ; ventrals 141-1-55 P. (iiniolensiit. 



1. PsAMMOPHis NOTOSTiCTUs, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1867, p. 237 ; 



Bouleng., ^c, p. 156. 



South Africa, Angola, Lower Congo. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (Eosser, Lightfoot) ; Stellenbosch 

 (Francke) ; Graliamstown ; Middelburg (Piers) ; Victoria 

 West (Piers) ; Touw's Eiver (Le Pevre) ; Beaufort West 

 (Jackson) ; Graaff-Eeinet (Paynter) ; Burghersdorp (Kanne- 

 meyer) ; Malmesbury Division (Kisel) ; Ceres (Purcell) ; 

 Caledon (Purges) ; Eobertson (Melle) ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; 

 Port St. Johns (Shortridge) ; Little Namaqualand (Schlechter). 



Orange Eiver Colony : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



German South- West Africa: Damaraland (Nightingale). 



2. PsAMMOPHis FURCATUS, Peters, i.e., p. 236 , Bouleng., t.c, p. 164. 

 Cape Colony, Transvaal, Southern Ehodesia, German South-West 



Africa. 

 Cape Colony : Cape Town (Fisk), Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) 

 Little Namaqualand (P^ringuey, Schlechter), Ograbies (Strauss). 



Psavimophis leightoni, Bouleng. P.Z.S., 1902, i. p. 126, pi. xii., 

 I now regard as not separable from P. furcatus, the chief 

 difference being that the dark and light markings on the back 

 of the head are transverse in the former, longitudinal in the 

 latter. 



3. PsAMMOPHis TRANSVAALiENSis, Gough, Ann. Transv. Mus. i., 



1908, p. 31, fig. 

 Transvaal. 



4. PsAMMOPHis TEiGRAMMUs, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xv,, 



1865, p. 95, pi. ii. fig. E. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 159. 

 Namaqualand. 



