Revised List of South African Beptiles and Batrachians. 519 



Cape Colony, German South-West Africa, Ehodesia. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (Layard) ; Durbanville (Schabort) ; 

 Malmesbury (Gird & Lightfoot) ; Eobertson (Hodges) ; Burghers- 

 dorp (Kannemeyer) ; Clanwilliam (Leipoldt, Smolke, Light- 

 foot) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; Upington ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; 

 Port NoUoth (Howard) ; Namaqualand (P6ringuey). 



Zambesi (Chapman). 



2. ASPIDELAPS SCUTATUS. 



Cyrtophis scutatus, Smith, 111., Kept., App. p. 22. 

 Aspidclaps scutatus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 891. 

 Natal, Portuguese East Africa, Southern Rhodesia. 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



31. ELAPECHIS. 



Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 358. 



Three Species in South Africa. 



Portion of rostral visible from above not half as long as its distance 



from the frontal, which shield is a little shorter than the parietals ; 



diameter of eye less than its distance from the nostril in the adult E. guentheri. 



Portion of rostral visible from above at least half as long as its 



distance from the frontal, which shield is much shorter than the 



parietals ; diameter of eye less than its distance from the nostril 



in the adult E. sundevallii. 



Portion of nostral visible from above at least half as long as its 

 distance from the frontal, which shield is much shorter than the 

 parietals ; diameter of eye equal to its distance from the nostril. . E. decosteri. 



1. Elapechis guentheri. 



Elapsoidea guentheri, Bocage, Jorn, Sc. Lisb, i., 1866, p. 70, pi. i. 



fig. 3. 

 Elapechis guentheri, Bouleng., t.c, p. 359. 

 Tropical Africa, Transvaal. 



2. Elapechis sundevallii. 



Elaps sundevalli, Smith, 111., Eept. pi. Ixvi. 

 Elapechis simdevalUi, Bouleng., t.c, p. 360. 

 Natal. 

 Estcourt. 



3. Elapechis decosteri. 



Elapsoidea decosteri, Bouleng., Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) ii., 1888, 



p. 141. 

 Elapechis decosteri, Bouleng., t.c, p. 360. 



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