52. PsEUDASPIS. 373 
Seales in 15 rows. Ventrals 224; anal entire; subcaudals 86. 
Dark brown above with three white stripes ; upper head-shields 
edged with white ; upper lip, outer row of scales, and lower surfaces 
white. 
Total length 360 millim. ; tail 80. 
Habitat unknown. 
a. 2 (V. 224; C0. 86). SE Haslar Collection. (Type.) 
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52, PSEUDASPIS. 
Duberria, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept, Re Passe 
Coluber, part., 'Sehleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 125 (183 
Coronella, part., Dum. § Bibr. Erp ‘én, vii. p- 07 (1854) ; Giinth, 
Cat. Col Sn. p. 34 (1858) ; Sem Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, 
eraiatol Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1864, p. 168. 
Cadmus (non ory), Theob. Cat. Rept. As, Soc, Mus. p. 58 (1868). 
Maxillary teeth 12 to 14, posterior longest ; anterior mandibular 
teeth much longer than the posterior. Head slightly distinct from 
neck; eye moderate or rather small, with round pupil. Internasal 
entering the nostril. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, with apieal 
pits, in 27 to 31 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate; sub- 
caudals in two rows. 
South Africa. 
1. Pseudaspis cana. 
Coluber canus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. i. p. 31, » pl. xi. fig. 1 (1754), 
and 8. N. i. p. 382 (1766); Merr. Beitr. Nat. Amph. i. aby Le, ix. 
(1790); Daud. Rept. vi. p. 359 (1803); Schleg. Phys. a 
p. 156, pl. vi. tigs.7 & 8 ( 837) ; Smith, Tul. Zool. 8. 4fr., 
pis. xiv.—xvii. (1842). 
Duberria cana, Fitzing. N. Class. pois 55 (1826). 
Coronella cana, Dum. § Bibr. vii (1854) ; Giinth, Cat. p. 40 
(1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat, Phys. ii. 1863, p. 253. ° 
Pseudaspis cana, Cope, Proc, Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 168. 
Cadmus cuneiformis, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 58, 
and Cat, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 163 (1876). 
Coronella phocarum, Giinth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 836. 
Snout rather prominent, with angular canthus rostralis and ver- 
tical slightly concave lores ; rostral considerably deeper than broad, - 
the portion visible from above about half as long as its distance from 
the frontal ; suture between the internasals as long as or longer than 
that between the prefrontals ; frontal as long as or longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as or longer than the 
parietals; loreal longer than deep; one preocular; two or three 
postoculars, and a subocular separating the fifth labial from the eye ; 
temporals 2+3 or 344; seven upper labials, fourth entering the 
eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 27 to 31 
rows. Ventrals 175-212; anal divided; subcaudals 50-70. Young 
