171. PSAMMOPHIS. 167 
adult, in the young with a yellowish streak along the frontal and 
yellowish cross-bars behind; yellowish white beneath, with a series 
of olive or blackish dots or short streaks along eath side. 
Total length 1300 millim.; tail 370. 
South Africa; Angola. 
a. do (V.161; C.?). Pretoria, Transvaal. Wt Distant, Esq. 
de g (V.150; 0.77) Port Natal Met Ayres [C.]. 
& © (V. 153; C. 94). 
d-e. Hgr. (V. 158 ; C.91) Natal EK. Howlett, Esq. 
& ye. ( (V. 153; C. 91). [P.}. 
Ft. 3AM Sat C. 95). Port Elizabeth. Mr. Drege [P.]. 
g. Hgr. (V. 162 ; C. 86). S. Africa. J. P| Gurney, Esq. 
h. Yg. (V. 157; C. 70). Angola, pat Barboza du 
Bocage [P.]. 
13. Psammophis elegans. 
Seba, Thes. ii. pl. Ix. fig. 1 (1735). 
Coluber elegans, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 536 (1802). 
AEE COI elegans, Leach, in FRowdich, Miss. Ashantee, p. 493 
(1819). 
Pabenoohts elegans, Bote, Isis, 1827,  P 533; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. 216 (1837), and Abdild. p. 180, pl. xliii. figs. 15 & 16 (1844) ; 
Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 894 (1854) ; Giinth, Cat. p. 188 (1858) ; 
A, Dum. Arch. Mus, x. 1859, p..208, pl. xvii. fig. 10; Boettg. 
Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 895; F. Mull. Verh. Nat. Ges. 
Basel, vii. 1885, p. 687 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Sov. 1895, p. 539. 
Snout twice to twice and a half as long as the eye, obliquely 
truncate at the end. MRostral a little broader than deep, scarcely 
visible from above; nostril between two shields; internasals a little 
longer than broad, about half as long as the prefrontals; frontal 
twice as long as broad, narrower, in the middle, than the supra- 
ocular, slightly longer than the prefrontals, or as long as its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as or shorter than the 
parietals; loreal three to.four times as long as deep; one pre- 
ocular, usually not reaching the frontal ; two or three postoculars ; 
temporals 2+ 2 or 3, rarely 1+2; nine upper labials, third deeper 
than second and fourth, third, fourth, and fifth in contact with the 
preocular, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the 
posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 179-202; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 144-161. Yellow or pale olive above, with three longi- 
tudinal bands, between blesX lines formed by black-edged scales, 
the median band five scales wide, the outer narrower and extending 
to the end of the snout after passing through the eyes ; head olive- 
above, punctulated with black; upper lip and sides of belly yellow, 
the rest of the belly olive, lineolated with black. 
Total length 1230 millim. ; tail 480. 
Senegambia and Guinea. 
