SNAKES. 195 



a. Adult. West Africa. Niger Expedition. 



b. Adult. Old Calabar. Presented by W. Logan, Esq. 



c. Half-grown. Africa. 



In the stomach of specimen b, a large Cordylus was found. 



2. Lam PROP HIS, Fitzinger. 



Body stout, rounded ; tail short, not distinct from trunk ; 

 head similar to Coronella, flat above, broad behind, with short 

 muzzle ; posterior frontals moderate, vertical five-sided ; two 

 labials coming into the orbit; occipitals rather elongate; two 

 nasals, nostril between ; one short loreal, one anterior, two pos- 

 terior oculars. Scales smooth, rhomboid, not much imbricate, 

 small, in twenty-three rows, those of the vertebral row rather 

 larger ; anal entire ; subcaudals two-rowed. Anterior teeth of 

 upper jaw rather longer; palatine teeth of equal length. South 

 Africa. 



Lamprophis, Fitz. Syst. Rept. p. 25 ; Ditm. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 427 ; 

 Coronella, sp., Schlegel, Ess. ii. p. 75 ; Lycodon, sp., Boie, Isis, 

 1827, p. 523; Cerastes, sp., Coluber, sp., auct. prior. 



1. Lamprophis aurora. 



Sela, ii. 78. 3. Coluber aurora, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, t. 19. 

 f. 1, and Syst. Nat. i. p. 379; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 544; Baud. 

 Rept. vii. p. 5 ; Merr. Tent. p. 97. Cerastes aurora, Laur. Syn. 

 p. 82; Daubent. Quadr. Ovip. Serp. p. 590; Lacep. Quadr. Ovip. 

 Serp. ii. pp. 98 & 296 ; Bonnat. Ophiol. p. 53 ; Latr. Rept. iv. 

 p. 172. Lycodon aurora, Boie, I. c. Coronella aurora. Schlep. 

 L c. Lamprophis aurora, Fitz. I. c. ; Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 431 . 



Above brownish (in spirits), each scale darker-edged, with a 

 yellow dorsal band ; beneath uniform whitish. 



a. Adult. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by Dr. Lee. 



b. Half-grown. Cape of Good Hope. 



c Half-grown. S. Africa. Presented by Sir J. Macgregor. 



3. Alopecion, Dum. ^' Bibr. 



Body rather elongate and compressed; tail short, not very 

 distinct from trunk ; head moderate, ovoid, with rounded crown, 

 broad and rounded muzzle ; posterior frontals moderate ; three 

 labials coming into the orbit ; two nasals, nostril between ; one 



k2 



