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COLUBRIDZ. 
d,e. dg (Sc.19; V.248; Port Essington. Haslar Collection. 
0.94) & Q (Se. 19; 
V. 252; 0.99). 
Is é (Sc. 19; V.257; Daly R., N. Aus- Christiania Museum. 
K (80.19; 'V.246; Herbert R, N. J. A,Boyd,Es (P.] 
-h. 3 ( ° ; V. 246; erbert . . - 4A. y' q. |r. Je 
7.96) & 9 (Se.21: Queensland. ; 
V, 248; C. 92). 
. é ans 21; V. 253; Sydney. Mrs, Levey [P.]. 
.108). 
k. ¢ eg 19; V. 239; New South Wales. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.}. 
. 90). 
i. ae (Sc. 19; V. 247; Australia, Sir J. Richardson [P.1.. 
. 102). 7 
7. Dipsadomorphus pulverulentus. 
Dipsas pulverulenta, Fisch. Abh. Nat. Ver. Hamb. iii. 1856, p. 81, 
pl. iil. fig. 1; Giinth. Cat. p. 173 (1858); Jan, Icon. Gén. 38, 
pl. iv. fg. 1 (1871); F. Mill. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878,. 
p. 688; Bocage, Jorn. Se, Lisb, xi. 1887, p. 186; Boettg. Ber. 
Senck. Ges, 1888, p. 75. 
Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth moderately enlarged. 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals 
broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals; frontal as long as. 
broad or a little longer than broad, as long as or longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal as long as deep or deeper than long; one preocular (rarely 
divided), widely separated from the frontal; two (rarely three) 
postoculars; temporals 242 (rarely 243); eight (rarely nine) 
upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth (or fourth, fifth, and sixth) 
entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are as large as or a little larger that the 
sterior. Scales in 19 rows, vertebral row more or less enlarged. 
Ventrals 240-260; anal entire; subcaudals 110-124. Buff or pale 
brown above, uniform or with more or less distinct dark brown. 
cross-bars ; young with a series of brown rhombs on each side, each 
enclosing a light ocellar spot; belly and lower surface of tail 
yellowish, powdered with brown, with two longitudinal dark brown 
es. 
Total length 850 millim. ; tail 185. 
West Africa, from the Coast of Guinea to Angola. 
a. 3 (V. 253; C. 118). Sierra Leone, 
uo y 260; ©. 117). Niger. “ J. W. Crosse: 
P.). 
c-d. Yg. Me 259, 240 ; Old Calabar. Ww. Pes Esq. 
CO. 115, 110). P,). 
e. Yg. (V. 250; O. 118). Fernando Po, Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
tS. 2 (V. 260; O. P). W. Africa, J. “s Salmon, Esq. 
g. 3 (V. 254; ©. 110), W. Africa. sit A Smith [P.} 
