334 COLUBRID. 
wx. 2(V. 230, 225; C. 49,48). Orange River. it Kannemeyer 
A. Yg. (V. 219; ©. 52). Near Grahamstown. Rev. G. H.R. 
P: 
p. 2 (V. 217; C. 50). Port Natal. Mr. T. én C.}. 
v. g (V. 209; C. 66). Natal. E. Howls; 
£. Q (V. 225; ©.?). Port Elizabeth. Mr i L. Drege 
P.}. 
D. Scales in 31 rows. 
o. 9 (V. 282; C, 55). Taveta, E. Africa, Keith Anstruther, 
Esq. [P.]. 
nm. Hgr. 2 (V. 216; C. 62). Coast of Guinea, 
p. 2 (V. 280; C. 52), Ashantee, 
o. Her. 2 (V. 218; C. 47). Sierra Leone. 
r. Her. ¢ (V. 202; C. 62). Congo. 
v. 2 (V. 220; C. 52.) Pungo Andongo. Pre, Welwitsch 
. 2 (V. 221; C. 53), Cape of Good Hope. Obaidam Mus. 
x. 2 (V. 225; C. 49). King William’s J. P. M. Weale, 
Town, Esq. [P.]. 
7. Boodon fuliginosus. 
Lycodon fuliginosus, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 551, 
; unicolor (non Boie), Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p 112 (1837). 
Bowdon unicolor, Dum. §& Bibr. vii. p. 359 (i854) Giinth. Cat. 
p- 199 (1858); A. Dum. Arch, Mus. x. 1859, p. ‘194, 1. xvii. 
fig. 1; Jan, Icon. Gén. 36, pl. ii, fig. 1 (1870); Boettg. Abh, Senck. 
Ges. xii. 1881, p. 398. 
Boodon fuliginosus, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xii. 1891, p. 15. 
Eye rather small. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from 
above; internasals shorter than the prefrontals; frontal once and 
a half to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as its dis- 
tance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal at 
least twice as long as deep; one or two preoculars, in contact with 
the frontal; two postoculars ; temporals 1+ 2, rarely 2+2; eight 
or nine upper labials, two or three of which enter the eye; three 
or four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 27 to 
31 rows. Ventrals 205-237; anal entire; subcaudals 47-67. 
Uniform blackish brown above, whitish inferiorly. 
Total length 850 millim. ; tail 100. 
Soudan. 
a. Yg. (Se. 31; V. 214; C. 64). Cape Yubi. Fischer Collection. 
b. go (Se. 31; V. 221; Oo. 50). Semmio. oO . Bohndoift 
g (Sc. 27: V. 205; C. 62). W. Africa. ee 
y Far (Sc. 29; V. 224; 0.47). Africa, Prof. Grant [P.}. 
e. Q (Sc. 31; V. 287; C. 49). Africa. 
