276 COLUBRID %. - 
F. Uniform reddish brown above and on the sides ; lateral ventral 
dots well marked. 
o. d (V. 125; C. 46). Port Elizabeth. J. M. Leslie, Esq. [P.]. 
2. Homalosoma shiranum. (Prare XIII. fig. 1.) 
Homalosoma lutrix (non L.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 555. 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; suture between 
the internasals thrice as long as that between the prefrontals; 
frontal once and two thirds as long as broad, longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals, 
nearly twice as broad as the supraocular; nostril in the anterior 
half of the nasal; no loreal, nasal forming a suture with the pre- 
ocular; one pree- and one postocular; temporals 142; six upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; two pairs of short chin- 
shields in contact with each other, the anterior in contact with 
three labials. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 142; anal eutire ; sub- 
caudals 33. Uniform olive-brown above ; belly yellowish white in 
the middle ; outer ends of ventrals and lower rows of scales grey. 
Total length 310 millim. ; tail 47. 
Nyassaland. 
a 9 (V. 142; C. 883). Shiré Highlands. 4H. H. Johnston, Esq. [P.]. 
3. Homalosoma abyssinicum. (Prare XIII. fig. 2.) 
Homolosoma lutrix (non L.), Blanf. Zool. Abyss. p. 458 (1870). 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; suture between 
the internasals hardly half as long as that-between the preefrontals ; 
frontal scarcely longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 
end of the snout, shorter than the parietals, a little broader than 
the supraocular; nostril in the anterior half of the nasal; no 
loreal, nasal forming a suture with the preocular; one pre- and 
one postocular ; temporals 1+ 2; six upper labials, third and fourth 
entering the eye; two pairs of chin-shields in contact with each 
other, the anterior in contact with three labials. Scales in 15 rows. 
Ventrals 120 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 32. Olive-brown above, with 
a fine, interrupted, black vertebral line; sides black, dotted with 
whitish ; belly greyish olive, spotted and freckled with black on 
the sides. 
Total length 235 millim. ; tail 43, 
Abyssinia. 
a. d (V. 120; CO. 32). Ashangi. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
4. Homalosoma variegatum. 
Homalosoma variegatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 622, and 
Reise n. Mossamb, iii. p. 107, pl. xvi. fig. 1 (1882); Bouleng. Ann, 
§ Mag. N. H. (6) ii, 1888, p. 140. 
