45, LYCOPHIDIUM, 341 
largest ; chin-shields very small, the anterior in contact with four 
or five lower labials. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 164-189; anal 
entire ; subcaudals 37-52. Brown above, with or without a dark 
vertebral line; a series of transverse dark brown or black spots 
usually present along each side of the back, these spots wide apart 
and usually alternating with those of the other side; head speckled 
or vermiculated with dark brown; a yellowish, dark-edged streak 
from the eye to the angle of the mouth; ventrals and subcaudals 
dark brown or olive-brown in the middle, yellowish speckled with 
brown on the sides, 
Total length 420 millim. ; tail 57. 
Guinea. 
a. Hgr. (V. 170; ©. 39). Fantee. 1. E, Bowdich, Esq. (P-]. 
( . 
b. 9 (V.189; C.42).  Ashantee. Mr. MeCarthy [C.1, 
e. 2 (V. 164; C. 37). Gold Coast. (Type of HZ. maura.) 
d. Yg.(V. 164; ©.?). | Asaba, 180 miles Dr. J. W. Crosse [P.]. 
(V. 183; ©. 52) Wate 3:0, Salm (P 
eg. db (VY. ; ©. . Africa. -C, on, - LP. 
& 9 (V. 180,189; C. Ret. (P-} 
42, 48). 
8. Lycophidium semicinctum. 
Lycodon horstokii, part., Sch/eg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 111 (1837). 
Lycophidion semicinctum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 414 (1854); Jan 
Icon, Gén. 36, pl. iii. fig. 4 (1870). 
—— horstockii, part., Giinth, Cat. p. 197 (1858), and Ann. § Mag 
N. a (3) xviii. 1866, p. 29, pl. vii. fig. A, and (4) i. 1868 
p. 427. 
—— horstockii, var. albomaculata, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, \xii.. 
1870, p. 334. 
Diameter of the eye but slightly greater than its distance from 
the mouth. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; 
internasals hardly as large as the nasals; prefrontals as long as 
broad or a little longer; frontal as long as broad, as long 
as the prefrontals, shorter than the parietals; latter shields 
short, not longer than the distance between the frontal and the 
end of the snout; loreal longer than deep; preocular as large as 
or a little 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 ; chin-shields very small, the anterior in contact with four 
or five lower labials. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 190-210; anal 
entire; subcaudals 37-52. Black or dark brown above and beneath, 
uniform or with yellowish cross bars or a dorsal series of large sub- 
quadrangular yellowish spots. 
Total length 545 millim. ; tail 65, 
Senegambia and Guinea, 
A. With yellowish cross bands. (ZL. semicinctum, D. & B.) 
a. 2 (V. 208; C. 38). <a 
