171. PSAMMOPHIs, 165 
yellowish white, with or without an interrupted blackish line on 
each side of the ventrals. 
Total length 880 millim. ; tail 250. 
South Africa. 
a. & (V. 158; ©. 95). Port Natal. Mr. T. Ayres [C.]. 
10. Psammophis longifrons. (Prars VIII. fig. 2.) 
Psammophis longifrons, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 366 (1890) ; 
Dreckmann, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii. 1892, p. 406; Gleadow, 
op. cit, viii. 1894, p. 553. 
Snout nearly twice as long as the eye. Rostral as deep as broad, 
‘visible from above; nostril between one anterior and two super- 
posed posterior nasals ; internasals hardly half as long as the pre- 
frontals, which are only a little shorter than the frontal; latter 
shield very narrow, much narrower in the middle than the supra- 
ocular, shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, a little 
shorter than the parietals; loreal slightly more than twice as long 
as deep; one preocular, not extending to the frontal; two post- 
oculars ; temporals 2+3,; eight upper labials, third deeper than 
second and fourth, fourth and fifth entering the eye; five lower 
lJabials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long 
as the posterior. Scalesin 17 rows. Ventrals 173; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 93. Olive above; head with symmetrical undulating 
black lines ; scales on the vertebral line, or on the whole back, with 
broad black margins; uniform white beneath. 
Total length 1320 millim. ; tail 375. 
Hills of South Western India. 
a. Ad. (head and neck only). Cuddapah Hilla. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
(Type.) 
11. Psammophis condanarus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp.i. pl. xxvii. (1796). 
Coluber condanarus, Merr. Tent. p. 107 (1820). 
Leptophis ? bellii, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 529. 
Psammophis condanarus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, 
p- 293; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 291 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 196, and xl. 1871, p. 488; Anders. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 182; Stoliezka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 
p- 83; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 187 (1876) ; Murray, Zool. 
Sind, p. 882 (1884) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p, 365, fig. (1890). 
sibilans, var. E, Giinth. Cat. p. 137 (1858). 
indicus, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Se. 1863. 
Phayrea isabellina, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 51. 
Psammophis sibilans, var. quadrilineata, Jan, Icon. Gén. 34, pl. iii. 
fig. 1 (1870). . 
Snout nearly twice as long as the eye. JRostral as deep as broad, 
visible from above; nasal divided or semidivided; internasals 
rather more than half the length of the prefrontals ; frontal twice 
