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scales round the body. Diameter of body 70 times in the total 
| length, length of tail 9 times. Flesh-colour. 
Total length 208 millim. 
Mozambique. 
16. Glauconia brevicauda. 
Stenostoma brevicauda, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xi, 1887, p. 194. 
— brevicauda, Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (6) vi. 1890, 
p. 92. 
Resembles S. nigricans, but differs in the narrower rostral and 
much shorter tail, which measures hardly twice its basal diameter 
and is contained 25 to 30 times in the total length. Diameter of 
body 57 times in the total length. Chocolate-brown above, greyish 
white inferiorly. 
Total length 170 millim. 
Dahomey and Ashantee, West Africa. 
a. Ad, Ashantee. 
17. Glauconia nigricans. 
vee) nigricans, Schleg. Abbild. p. 38, pl. xxxii. figs. 21-24 
Stenostoma nigricans, Dum. § Bibr. vi. & 326 (1844). 
Glauconia nigricans, Gray, Cat. Liz. - 39 (1845). 
Stenostoma nigricans, part Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr., _ pls. li. 
fig. 4, & ivi 25 (1846) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 38, 1. 2, pls. v. & vi. 
fig. 8 (1864) ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 102 (1883), 
Snout rounded ; supraocular present, small; rostral as broad as 
or a little broader than the nasal, extending to the level of the 
anterior border of the eyes; nasal completely divided into two; 
ocular bordering the lip, between two labials, the anterior of which 
is very small; five lower labials. 14 scales round the body. 
Diameter of body 40 to 53 times in the total length, length of tail 
8 to 13 times. Brown or blackish, the scales edged with lighter. 
Total length 160 millim. 
South Africa, 
a. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
b. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Dr, J. Lee [P.). 
e. Ad. Port Elizabeth. A. E. Craven, Esq. [P.). 
d. capes specs., Port Elizabeth. J.P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.}. 
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e-f. Ad. rs hgr. Port Elizabeth, H, A. Spencer, Esq. [P.). 
18. Glauconia conjuncta. 
Stenostoma nigricans, part., Smith, Il. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pl. liv. 
fig. 21 (1846) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 38 (1864); Peters, Heise n. 
ossamb. iii. p. 102 (1882). 
—— conjunctum, Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. i. 1861, p. 189, and 
Icon. . 2, pls. v. & vi. fig. 9 (1861). 
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