228 
d. Q (V. 187; 0.55). 
e. Yg. (V. 135; C. 69). 
f. y - Os Aa 
C, 85). 
g. 2 (V. 136; C.?). 
ht. go (V. 136, 146; 
COLUBRID &, 
Monbuttu, Upper Dr. Emin Pasha [P.}. 
Congo. 
Congo. : 
Gold Coast. H. H. Evans, . 
(Type of C. it.) 
Gaboon. 
Coast of Zanzibar. 
C. P, 84). 
k. 2 (V. 189; C.?). Zambesi Expedition. Sir J. Kirk ot 
i. fo (V. 144; C. 65). Quellimane. Sir J. Kirk [ C. 
m,n. Q (V. 145, 149; Africa. 
C.?, ?). 
28. Tropidonotus pygeus. 
Contia pygeea, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1871, p. 223; Garm. N. Am. 
Rept. p. 93, pl. vii. fig. 5 (1883). 
Eye moderate. Rostral much broader than deep, visible from 
above; nasal semidivided; internasals small and subtriangular, 
truncate in front; frontal a little shorter than the preefrontals, once 
and two thirds to once and three fourths as long as broad, longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal as long as deep or deeper than long; one pre- and 
two postoculars ; temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth and 
fifth, or third, fourth, and fifth, entering the eye ; five lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little shorter 
than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, smooth, faintly keeled on 
the tail. Ventrals 120-133; anal divided; subcaudals 35-54. 
Black above, with a very faint pale line along the centre of each 
scale of several lateral series; the lines more distinct near the vent 
and on the tail; beneath pale, posterior half of body and tail red, 
each ventral shield with a short black cross bar on the anterior 
margin, 
Total length 300 millim. ; tail 50. 
North Carolina to Florida. 
a-b, 9 (V. 121,123; Lake Kerr, Florida. A. Erwin Brown, Esq. 
C. 40, 38). , Pi} 
29. Tropidonotus punctulatus. (Prarr XIV. fig. 2.) 
Tropidonotus punctulatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 247 (1858), and Ann. § 
Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 420, and Zool. Rec, 1870, p. 74; Theob. 
Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 173 (1876); Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p- 350 (1890). 
Fowlea peguensis, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus, p. 57 (1868). 
Eye rather small. Rostral broader than deep, visible from above, 
forming a narrow suture with the internasals, which are much 
narrowed anteriorly and nearly as long as the prefrontals ; frontal 
nearly twice as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end 
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