506 Annah of the South African Museum. 



2. Lycophidium semiannulis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 622; 

 Bouleng., t.c, p. 339. 

 Portuguese East Africa, Zululand. 



6. SIMOCEPHALUS. 

 Gunth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 194 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 344. 



Two Species in South Africa. 



Frontal a little shorter than the parietals ; two postocular.s ; ventrals 



203-241 S. ciipemh. 



Frontal much shorter than the parietals ; a single postocular ; ven- 

 trals 171-185 S. xijnKHc/;. 



1. SiMOCEPHALUS CAPENSIS. 



Heteroleins capcnsis, Smith, 111., Eept. pi. Iv. 



Simocephalus capensis, Bouleng,, t.c, p. 345. 



Central Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Southern Ehodesia, 

 Natal. 



Natal : Durban (Bowker) ; Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury (Mar- 

 shall). 



2. Simocephalus nyass2E, Giinlh. Ann. k Mag. N. H. (6) i., 1888, 



p. 328; Bouleng., t.c, p. 347, pi. xxiii. fig. 2. 



East and Central Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, Trans- 

 vaal. 



Natal : Durban (Bowker). 



Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (Peringuey). 



7. PSEUDASPIS. 

 Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1864, p. 168; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 373. 



1. PSEUDASPIS CANA. 



Coluber cana, Linn. S. N. i. p. 382. 



Pseudasjns cana, Bouleng., I.e. 



South Africa to Angola and British East Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Division (Smith, Bishop, Layard, Southey, 

 Oakley, Kolbe) ; Tzitzikamma Eiver (Harrison) ; Beaufort 

 West (Jackson) ; Gi-aaff-Reinet (Kannemeyer) ; Burghersdorp 

 (Kannemeyer) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; Tsomo, Transkei (Water- 

 meyer) ; Port Elizabeth (Drege, Moorhouse) ; Port Nolloth 

 (Howard) : Hanover (Schreiner) ; Worcester (Paynter) ; Little 

 Namaqualand (Peringuey, Christensen, Scully), 



Natal (Sanderson). . 



