160 COLUBRID. 
chin-shields, which are much shorter than the posterior. Scales 
in 17 rows. Ventrals 182; anal divided; subcaudals 132. Pale 
olive above, yellowish posteriorly, the scales on the vertebral line 
black-edged, forming a stripe posteriorly ; a rather indistinct dark 
lateral stripe, running along the outer row of scales; upper lip, 
pre- and postoculars yellowish white ; lower parts and lower half of 
outer row of scales yellowish white, the ventrals clouded with olive 
in the middle. 
Total length 1180 millim. ; tail 430. 
Namaqualand. 
a. do (V. 182; C. 182). R. San Nicolao, Little J. J. Monteiro - 
Mi : Fish Bay. ; of (Type) 
6. Psammophis subteniatus. 
Psammophis sibilans, var. subteeniata, Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii, 
p- 121 (1882) ; Fischer, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. i. 1884, p. 12. 
—— subteeniatus, Bouleng. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 538. 
Snout once and a half to once and two thirds as long as the 
eye. Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above; 
nostril between two shields; internasals about half as long as the 
preefrontals ; frontal narrower, in the middle, than the supraocular, 
a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as 
or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal twice and a half to thrice 
as long as deep; one preocular, in contact with or narrowly separated 
from the frontal ; two postoculars; temporals 242 or 3; eight or 
nine upper labials, third deeper than second and fourth, fourth and 
fifth, fifth and sixth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are as long as or shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 
Ventrals 151-168; anal divided; subcaudals 100-108. Brown or 
olive above, the seven middle rows of scales usually darker and 
black-edged and separated from the sides by a more or less distinct 
pale streak ; usually a black lateral streak, running along the outer 
row-of scales; upper labials yellowish, with black dots and a black 
line along their upper border which is continued across the rostral ; 
yellowish below, with a black line along each side of the belly. 
Total length 1030 millim.; tail 350. 
East Africa, from Zanzibar to Mozambique. 
a. Her, (V. 151; ©. Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [C.}, 
104). 
b. 9 W. 161; ©. 103). Zanzibar. Dr. J. G, Fischer, 
e-d. 9 (V. 168; C. — McLear, Lake Mr. F. A. Simons 
ree yg. (V. 164; yassa. [C.], 
e. 2 (V.162; O. ?). Lake Nyassa. Miss S, C. McLaugh- 
fa. é ANP 156,165; Lake Nyassa. Universities Mission. 
O. 103, ?). 
h,i.3(V.159;0.?)& Zomba, Nyassaland. Sir H. H. Johnston, 
@ (V. 167; C. 104). (P.}. 
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