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1. Sepsina weberi, Eoux, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., xxv., 1907, p. 437, 



pi. xiv. fig. 9. 

 Little Namaqualand. 



2. Sepsina grammica, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1868, p. 318. 

 " South-West coast of Africa." 



7. ACONTIAS. 

 Cuvier, E. An. ii. p. 60; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 424. 



Tliree S])ecies in South Africa. 



Snout rounded, moderately projecting; the distance between the 

 anterior corner of the eye and the nostril does not exceed the length 

 of the rostral shield ; the width of the large anal plate exceeds the 

 distance between the frontal and the tip of the snout ; belly 



yellowish A. meleagris. 



Snout rounded, moderately projecting ; the distance between the 

 anterior corner of the eye and the nostril exceeds the length of the 

 rostral shield ; the width of the large anal plate does not exceed the 

 distance between the frontal and the tip of the snout ; uniform dark 



brown or blackish A. pluinhens. 



Snout subcuneiform, much depressed, strongly projecting: 14 scales 



round the body A.liiicufus. 



1. ACONTIAS MELEAGRIS. 



Aoiguis meleagris, Linn. S. N. i. p. 390. 



Acontias meleagris, Bouleng., t.c, p. 427. 



Cape Colony : Cape Division (Oakley, Layard, Purcell) ; Grahams- 

 town (Schonland, Ivy) ; Eobben Island (Oakley, Lightfoot) ; 

 Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Port Elizabeth (Cregoe, 

 Moorhouse) ; Bedford Division (Tucker, Stephenson) ; 

 Malmesbury (Gird) ; Graaff-Eeinet (Paynter) ; Tscmo, 

 Transkei (Bowker) ; Clanwilliam (Leipoldt) ; Uitenhage 

 (Drege) ; Goudini, Worcester Division (Franke) ; Eobertson 

 Division (Melle, Groom) ; Umtata (Kolbe) ; Little Namaqua- 

 land (Peiinguey, Howard). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



2. Acontias plumbeus, Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mossamb., Eept. 



p. 35, pi., iii. ; Bouleng., t.c, p. 428. 

 Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Zululand, Portuguese East Africa. 

 Cape Colony : East London (Wood). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



3. Acontias lineatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879; p. 774, pi. — , 



fig. 2; Bouleng., t.c, p. 428. 

 A. grayi, Bouleng., I.e. 



