354 



COLUBIUIU:. 



pits, in 23 to 27 rows ; scales on three or four lateral rows oblique 

 and with more or lees distinctly serrated keels ; ventrals rounded. 

 Tail moderate ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Fig. 25. 



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Skull of Dasypeltis scabra. 



I. Da sy pelt is scabra. 



Coluber scaber, Linn. Mtts. Ad. Frid. p. 36, pi. x. fig. 1 (1754), and 

 S. N. i. p. 384 (1766) ; Merr. Beitr. Nat. Amph. i. p. 34, pi. ix. 

 (1790) ; Daud. Kept. vi. p. 263 (1803). 



palmarum, Leach, Tuckers Explor. It. Zaire, App. p. 408 



Anodon typiis, Smith, Zool. Journ. iv. 1829, p. 443. 



Rarhiodon scaber, Jourdan, Le Temps, 13. 6. 1833 (?) ; Dum. fy 



JBibr. vii. p. 491, pi. Ixxxi. fig. 3 (1W>4) ; Jan, Elcnco, p. 106 



(1863), and Icon. G6n. 39, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1872). 

 Tropidonotus scaber, Schlcy. 1'hys. Serp. ii. p. 328, pi. xii. figs. 12 & 13 



(1837) ; Reinh. VidensTc. Sclsk. Kkrift. x. 1843, p. 265, pi. i. fig. 24. 

 Dasypeltis inomatus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pi. Ixxiii. 



(1842). 



scaber, Smith, I. c. 



fasciatus, Smith, 1. c. ; Peter*, Mon. Jierl. Ac. 1864, p. 644. 



Deirodon scaber, Owen, Odontugr. p. 220 (1845). 



Dipsas carinatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. ii. 1845, p. 110. & 



1857, p. 69. 



