15 



19 



- Although he dedicated V. cornuta and V. lophophrys two separate, albeit successive, 



accounts. Smith states on page (37): " Vipera cornuta and V. lophophrys are, without doubt, 

 identical; the latter is simply either the reptile of a more advanced age, or a variety peculiar 

 to certain localities. ...". In the sub-header of the account of V. cornuta. reference is made 

 to plates 32 and 33 accordingly, despite the caption of plate 33 reading Vipera lophophrys. 



20 



- The first page of the appendix bears no page number. 



21 



- a Northern African species 



22 



- a Western Asian species 



23 



- Plate 30 bears as a caption only "Genus Cordyhis". The explanations forthe twenty-six 

 individual line-drawings are included, more or less incompletely, in the respective species 

 accounts. 



- nee Lamprophis Fitzinger, 1843! Smith provided a sufficient generic diagnosis in a 

 footnote headed "C//. Gen.". Lamprophis Smith, 1847, is, however, pre-occupied for 

 Fitzinger's genus of the African house-snakes Lycodonomorphus had also been described 

 earlier by Fitzinger (1843). 



^^ - See Parker & Ride (1962: 290ff) and Greig, Boycott & De Villiers (1979: 25fO for 

 discussions of this taxon. 



-Boulenger(1893: 332) identified plate 22 to depict "Booc/ort//>7eam.v"(Dumeril,Bibron 

 & Dumeril, 1854), a West African taxon, but his synonymy includes other descriptions 

 that also refer in fact to L.Jidiginosus (e.g. Boaedon capense [Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 

 1854]). 



27 



- provisionally determined by WD. Haacke (pers. comm.) 



28 



- For an extensive discussion of the nomenclature history, synonymy, differentiation, 



and the designation of a neotype of Bufo pantherinus Smith, 1828, see Poynton & Lambiris 

 (1998: 3ff)- 



29 



- treated as a monotypic or full species, respectively, by Branch (1998) 



- A taxon recognized by Meirte (1992: 23), but not listed by Branch (1998), the type 

 locality being the "interior districts of South Africa". 



- For a discussion of the possible origin of Smith's material see Branch & Whiting 

 (1997: 125ff). 



