-7t', COLDBBIDJ?. 



F. Uniform reddish brown alx)vo and on the sides ; lateral ventral 

 dots well marked. 



o. <$ (V. 126 ; C. 46). Port Elizabeth. J. M. Leslie, E*q. [P.]. 



2. Homalosoma shiranum. (PLATE XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Homalosoma lutrix (non Z.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 655. 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; suture between 

 the internasals thrice as long as that between the prffifrontals ; 

 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 prae- 

 ocular ; one pra3- and one postocular ; temporals 1 + 2 ; 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 entire ; 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. 2 (V. 142 ; C. 33). Shir< Highlands. H. II. Johnston, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Homalosoma abyssmicum. (PLATE 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 praefrontals ; 

 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 praeocular ; one prae- 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. cJ (V. 120; C. 32). Ashangi. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Homalosoma variegatum. 



Homalosoma variegatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18C4, p. G22, and 

 Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 107, pi. xvi. fig. 1 (1882) ; Houleny. Ann. 

 $ May. N. II. (fi) ii. 1888, p. 140. 



