18 BULLETIN 151, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



TYPHLOPS UNITAENIATUS (Peters) 



Typhlops (Letheobia) unitaeniatus Peters, 1878, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



p. 205, pi. 2, fig. 5 (Taita, Kenya Colony). 

 Typhlops unitaematus Boulengeh, 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. o-t. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 22091) Jombeni Range, K. C. (Chanler) 1892. 



This typically colored specimen in a beautiful state of preserva- 

 tion has 22 instead of 24 midbody scale rows. Total length 280 mm. 

 Diameter 5 mm. is included fifty-six times in the length. A specimen 

 from Kibwezi, K. C, in the collection of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology measures 380 mm., but shows no increase in diameter, the 

 latter being 76 times in the length. 



Family LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE 



Genus LEPTOTYPHLOPS Fitzinger 



LEPTOTYPHLOPS DISTANTI (Boulenger) 



Glauconia distanti Boulenger, 1892, in Distant's A Naturalist in the Transvaal, 

 p. 175, fig.; 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 62.— Loveridge, 1923, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 874. 



3 (U.S.N.M. 42188, 49661-2) East Africa (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 62894-5) Morogoro, T. T. (Loveridge) 1916-17. 

 2 (U.S.N.M. 62896-7) Mt. Longido, T. T. (Loveridge) 1916. 



The diameter is included in the length from 37 to 56 times as 

 against 48 to 65 times as recognized hitherto. 



Family BOIDAE 



Genus PYTHON Daudin 



PYTHON SEBAE (Gmelin) 



Cohiber sebae Gmelin, 1788, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, p. 1118. 

 Python Roosevelt, 1910, African Game Trails, pp. 113, 157. 

 Python sebae Boulenger, 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 86. 



1 (U.S.N. M.40246) Pease's Farm, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



When, after arranging for this impalla to be carried back to the farm, we 

 returned to where our horses had been left, the boys told us with much excite- 

 ment that there was a large snake near by; and sure enough a few yards off, 

 coiled up in the long grass under a small tree, was a python. I could not see it 

 distinctly, and using a solid buUet I just missed the backbone, the buUet going 

 through the body about its middle. Immediately the snake lashed at me with 

 open jaws, and then uncoiling, came gliding rapidly in our direction. I do not 

 think it was charging; I think it was merely trying to escape. But Judd, who 

 was utterly unmoved by lion, leopard, or rhino, evidently held this snake in 

 respect, and yelled to me to get out of the way. Accordingly, I jumped back a 

 few feet, and the snake came over the ground where I had stood; its evil genius 

 then made it halt for a moment and raise its head to a height of perhaps 3 feet, 

 and I killed it by a shot through the neck. The porters were much wrought up 

 about the snake, and did not at all like my touching it and taking it up, first 



