35-4 



COLtTBEID^E. 



pits, in 23 to 27 rows ; scales on three or four lateral rows oblique 

 and with more or less distinctly serrated keels ; ventrals rounded. 

 Tail moderate ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Fiff. 25. 



Skull of Dasypeltis scahra. 



1. Dasypeltis scabra. 



Coluber scaber, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 36, pi. x. fig. 1 (1754). and 



S. N. i. p. 384 (1766) ; Merr. Beitr. Nat. Amph. i. p. 34, pi. ix. 



(1790) ; Baud. Eept. vi. p. 263 (1803). 

 palmarum, Leach, Tuckey^s Explor. R. Zaire, App. p. 408 



(1818). 

 Anodon typus, Smith, Zool. Jonrn. iv. 1829, p. 443. 

 Eaohiodon scaber, Jourdan, Le Tevips, 13. 6. 1833 (?) ; Dum. Sf 



Bibr. vii. p. 491, pi. Ix^xi. fig. 3 (1854) ; Jan, Elenco, p. 106 



(1863), and Icon. Gen. 39, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1872). 

 Tropidonotus scaber, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 328, pi. xii. figs. 12 & 13 



(1837) ; Eei7ih. Vidensk. Sehk. Shift, x. 1843, p. 265, pi. i. fig. 24. 

 Dasypeltis inornatus, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pi. Ixxiii. 



(1842). 



scaber, Smith, I. c. 



fasciatus, Smith, I. c. ; Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 644. 



Deirodon scaber, Oxcen, Odontoyr. p. 220 (1845). 



Uipsas carinatus, Hallow. Pruc. Ac. rhihid. ii. 1845, p. *119, & 



1857, p. 69. 



