340 COLUBRID. 
B. Dark purplish brown above and below, lateral scales and ventrals 
with a whitish edge ; throat white. 
f. do (V.176; C. 87). iy Sod ~ Bragance, — Barboza du Bocage 
gola, ]. 
g. od (V. 182; C. 45). Nyassaland, H. H. Johnston, Esq. [P.}. 
C. Dark grey above, the scales edged with blackish; two series of 
black spots along the back, the anterior confluent into cross 
bars ; throat white; ventrals and subcaudals blackish brown 
edged with whitish. (Var. multimaculata, Boettg.) 
h. 3 (V. 175; C. 84). Congo. 
6. Lycophidium jacksoni. (Pxiare XXI. fig. 3.) 
Diameter of the eye not greater than its distance from the mouth. 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, visible from above; internasals 
about as large as the nasals ; preefrontals a little longer than broad’; 
frontal a littie longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 
rostral, much shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than deep ; 
preocular as large as the supraocular, broadly in contact with the 
frontal ; two postoculars, both in contact with the parietal; tem- 
porals 142; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering 
the eye ; chin-shields very small, the anterior in contact with four 
lower labials. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 164-189; anal entire ; 
subeaudals 28-33. Olive-grey above and beneath, the scales with 
or without whitish dots. 
Total length 550 millim. ; tail 55. 
East Africa, 
a. 2 (V.189; C.33). Kilimanjaro. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [ P.}. 
b. 2 (V.164; C.28), Lamu, E. coast of Africa, F. J. Jackson, Esq. | P.}. 
N. of Zanzibar. 
7. Lycophidium irroratum. 
Coluber irroratus, Leach, in Bowdich, Miss. Ashantee, p. 494 (1819). 
Hypsirhina maura, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 67 (1842). 
Metoporhina irrorata, Giinth. Cat. p. 198 (1858). 
Eyogpbidinn irroratum, part., Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) i. 
1868, p. 426. 
—— nigromaculatus, Jan, Icon. Gén., 36, pl. iii. fig. 5 (1870). 
—— guttatus, Jan, l. ¢. fig. 6. 
Diameter of the eye greater than its distance from the mouth. 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, visible from above; internasals 
hardly as large as the nasals; preefrontals a little longer than broad ; 
frontal as long as broad or a little longer, shorter than its distance 
from the end of the snout, which nearly equals the length of the 
parietals; loreal longer than deep; preocular nearly as large as or 
larger than the supraocular, broadly in contact with the frontal; 
two postoculars, both in contact with the parietal ; temporals 142; 
eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye, seventh 
