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days’ treatment with boracic lotion, aided by a few cauterisations 
with sulphate of copper. 
“ During my sojourn at Porto-Novo, a store-keeper at the Dogba 
trading station was a victim of the Spitter. While working at his 
store he received in his eye a jet of liquid, which produced violent 
conjunctivitis.” 
(e) Aspidelaps. 
Maxillary bones extending forwards beyond the palatines, as in 
Sepedon, with a pair of large poison-fangs; no other maxillary 
teeth. Head slightly distinct from the neck. Eyes of moderate 
size, with round or vertically elliptic pupils. Rostral shield very 
large, detached on the sides. Body cylindrical; scales oblique, 
smooth or keeled, in 19—23 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short, 
obtuse ; subcaudal scales in 2 rows. 
(1) A. lubricus.—146—167 ventral scales ; 20—28 subcaudals. 
Colour orange or red, with black rings; a black bar below the 
eyes ; upper surface of head sometimes entirely black. 
Total length, 590 millimetres ; tail 55. 
Habitat : Cape Colony and Namaqualand. 
(2) A. scutatus (Fula-fula of Mozambique).—115—135 ventrals ; 
24—38 subcaudals. 
Colour pale grey, with black spots or cross-bars, and a black 
mark shaped like a circumflex accent on the head. A black collar 
encircling the neck, and a black vertical streak below the eye. 
Belly whitish. 
The total length may be as much as 520 millimetres. 
Habitat: Natal, Delagoa Bay, Mozambique. 
(f) Walterinnesia. 
Maxillary bones prolonged forwards beyond the palatines, with 
a pair of large poison-fangs; no other maxillary teeth. Head 
distinct from the neck; eyes rather small, with round pupils ; 
