66. CHLOROPHIS. 97 
with a white spot at the base, with or without a black upper border ; 
interstitial skin black; sometimes with black spots or irregular 
cross bands on the anterior part of the body; greenish yellow 
inferiorly. 
Total length 820 millim.; tail 240. 
Tropical Africa. 
. od (V.173; C. 127). Gambia. J. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 
Gs OSV. 182; - 106), McCarthie Id. Officers of the Chat- 
ham Museum [P.]. » 
e-d. 3 (V.175; C. 125)  Bissao. V. H. Cornish, Esq. 
& g GV. 180; C116). C. 
ef. 3 (V. 165 ; C. 153) Sierra Leone. Sir A. ‘Kennedy eae 
e Ga: 162: GS 11); 
Gy Gy (N.L6G:; 0. 122). Sierra Leone. H.C. Hart, Esq. [P.]. 
h-i, k-l. (V. 168; C. Sierra Leone, 
130) & 9 (V.168, 172, 
NC. Lil, 108, 103). 
m-n. 9 (V.171; C.122) Ashantee. T. E. Bowdich, Esq. 
& head. [P.].. (Lypes:) 
ee CVE ITEC. 19) Guinea ? Leyden Museum. 
p: 2 (V. 157; C. 94): Gaboon. 
@: QV. 104; CoP’). Angola. Lieut. Cameron [P.]. 
r 9 (V. 158; C.105). Caconda, Angola. ,. Prof. B. du Bocage 
P 
s-t. 2 (V. 162, 163; C. Zambesi Expedition. oily int ROATE 
105, 103). 
u. Her. ¢ (V. 157; C. Blantyre Mission Sta- H. A. Simons, Esq. 
114). tion. (C.]. (Type of A. 
shirana. ) 
v-w. 2 (V. 154, 162; C. Shiré Valley. 
98, 108). 
zs 3 (V. 170; C.114).. Ugogo, E. Africa. Capt. Speke [ P. ]. 
9. Chlorophis heterodermus. 
Chlorophis heterodermus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 54. 
Ahetulla heteroderma, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) x1, 1863, 
p. 285. 
Herpetethiops bellii, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, 
p- 27, pl. vii. fig. B. 
Philothamnus heterodermus, Buchh. &§ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1875, 
p- 199; Bocaye, Jorn, Se, Lisb. ix. 1882, p.18; Boettg. Ber. Sench. 
Ges, 1888, p. 59. 
Rostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above mea- 
suring hardly one fourth its distance from the frontal; internasals 
as long as or a little shorter than the prefrontals; frontal with 
slightly concave lateral borders, as long as or a little longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals; loreal 
once and a half to twice as long as deep; one preocular, usually 
not in contact with the frontal; two postoculars ; temporals 2+ 2; 
nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; five 
lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as 
long as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals with moderately 
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