138 REPTILES. 



5. PSAMMOPHIS ELEGANS. 



Seba, ii. 60. 1 . Coluber elegans, Dr. E. W. Gray, MSS. ; Shaw, 

 Zool. iii. p. 536. Macrosoma elegans. Leach, Bowdich, Ashan- 

 tee, App. 493, 1819, and Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825. Psammophis 

 elegans, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 533, 548 ; Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 189 ; 

 Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 216, and Abbildg. t. 43. f. 15, 16; Du7n. ^^ 

 Bibr. vii. p. 894. 



Bod}' and tail very long and slender ; head elongate : snout 

 pointed, conical. Head above uniform greyish, freckled with 

 innumerable dusky points ; body above brownish grey, with a 

 broad dorsal band from the occiput to the end of tail ; on each 

 side a narrower black band from the muzzle through the eye to 

 the end of tail ; belly with four obsolete dark-marbled bands. 



a. Adult. Fantee. Presented by J. E. Bowdich, Esq. 



b. Half-grown. Fantee. Presented by J. E. Bowdich, Esq. 



c. Young. Ashantee. From the Ley den Museum. 



d. Adult : injured. West Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 

 €. Half-grown. West Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 

 /. Half-grown. West Africa. From Mr. Rich's Collection. 



g. Adult. Africa. Old Collection. 



h, i. Adult : bad state. Africa. Old Collection. 



k-m. Half-grown. Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



n. Adult. Africa. From the Haslar Collection. 



0. Adult : bad state. Africa. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. CcELOPELTis, Wagler. 



PsammophidcB with a deep groove on the crown ; loreal region 

 grooved ; head quadrangular, high, pointed in front ; snout 

 rather short ; vertical shield very long and narrow ; two loreals, 

 one nasal, one anterior, and two posterior oculars. Scales lan- 

 ceolate, longitudinally grooved, in nineteen rows. Pupil sub- 

 ovoid. Posterior maxillary teeth furrowed, anterior equal in 

 length ; anterior teeth of the lower jaw longer than the hinder 

 ones. South Europe and North Africa. 



Ccelopeltis, Wagl. Syst. der Amph. p. 189; Dum.Sf Bibr. vii. 

 p. 1129. Psammophis, sp., Boie, Isis, 1827, ip. 526; Schleg. 

 Ess. ii. p. 203. Rhabdodon, Fleischmann, Dalmat. Nov. Serp. 

 Genera, Erlangen, 1831. Coluber, sp., Natrix, sp., auct. prior. 



1. Ccelopeltis lacertina. 



Geoffr. Descr. de VEgypte, Kept. pi. 7. f- 6 ; Savigny, Suppl. 

 })1. 5.f. 2, 3. Natrix lacertina, Wagl. 4* Spix, Serp. Bras. t. 5. 

 Coluber rupestris, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. 91. Colu- 



