GO. CHLOROPHIS. 



97 



with a white spot at the base, with or without a black upper bord- r ; 

 interstitial skin black: sometimes with black spots or irregular 

 cross bands on the anterior part of the body ; greenish yellow 

 interiorly. 



Total "length S20 millim.; tail 240. 



Tropical Africa. 



a. 3 (V. 173; C. 127). 

 6. $ (V. 182 ; C. 100). 



e-d. rf (V. 175 ; C. 125) 

 & $ (V. 180; C. 116). 



-/ 6 (V. 165 ; C. 133) 

 & $ (V. 162; C. 111). 



a. rf (V. 166; C. 122). 



h-i,k-l. rf (V. 168; C. 

 130) & ^ (V. 168, 172, 

 171; C. 111,108,103). 



m-n. $ (V. 171 ; C. 1>) 

 \ head. 



o. $ (V. 176; C. 110). 



p. $ (V. 157 ; C. 94). 



q. $ (V. 154; C.?). 



r. (V. 158; C. 103). 



Gambia. 

 McCarthie Id. 



BUMO. 



Sierra Leone. 



Sierra Leone. 

 Sierra Leone. 



Ashantee. 



Guinea? 

 Gaboon. 



Angola. 

 Caconda, Angola. 



g-t. $> (V. 162, 163 ; C. Zambesi Expedition. 



105, 103). 



u. Hgr. c? (V. 157 ; C. Blantyre Mission Sta- 



114). tion. 



v-w. $ (V. 154, 162 ; C. Shire" Valley. 



98, 108). 

 x. rf (V. 170; C. 114). Ugogo, E.Africa. 



J. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 



Officers of the Chat- 

 ham Museum fP.]. 



V. II. Cornish, Esq. 

 [C.]. 



Sir A. Kennedy [P.]. 



H. C. Hart, Esq. [P.]. 



T. E. Bowdich, Esq. 



[P.]. (Types.) 

 Leyden Museum. 



Lieut. Cameron [P.]. 

 Prof. B. du Bocage 



[P.]. 

 Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



H. A. Simons, Esq. 

 [C.]. (Type of A. 

 shirana.) 



Capt. Speke [P.]. 



9. Chlorophis heterodermus. 



Chlorophis heterodermus, Hallow. Proc. An. Philad. 1857, p. 54. 

 Ahaetulla heteroderuia, G'dnth. Ann. $ Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1868, 



p. 285. 

 Herpefcethiops bellii, Giinth. Ann. # Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, 



]i. -7, pi. vii. fi;r. J5. 

 Philothamnus heterodermus, Buchh. Sf Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1875, 



p. 199; Bocaye, Jorn. Sc. Liab. ix. 1882, p. 18; Boetiy. Ber. Senck. 



Get. 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 pnefrontala ; 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 pncocular, usually 

 not in contact with the frontal ; two postoculare ; 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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