200. MACRELAPS.—201. APARALLACTUS. 255 
series of small scales. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 104-115; 
anal divided; subcaudals 11-13. Greyish white above, with 
irregular brown cross-bands, or dark brown with irregular white 
cross-bands ; ventrals broadly edged with brown in front. 
Total length 255 millim. ; tail 15. 
Somaliland. 
a. Q (V.115; CO. 11). Somaliland. Paris Museum [E_]. 
(One of the types.) 
200. MACRELAPS. 
Maxillary short, with 4 moderately large teeth followed by a 
very large grooved fang situated below the eye; anterior man- 
dibular teeth enlarged, third to fifth longest. Head small, not 
distinct from neck; eye minute, with round pupil; nasal divided ; 
no loreal; no preocular; prefrontal entering the eye. Body 
cylindrical; scales smooth, without pits, in 25 or 27 rows; ventrals 
rounded. ‘Tail short; subcaudals single. 
South Africa. 
1. Macrelaps microlepidotus. 
Uriechis microlepidotus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) v., 1860, 
p- 168, pl. ix.; Gurney, t. c. p. 342. 
Rostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above nearly 
half as long as its distance from the frontal; internasals shorter 
than the prefrontals; frontal as long as broad, as long as its 
distance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals; 
postocular small, single, in one specimen (young) in contact with 
the first temporal ; temporals 1+2; seven upper labials, third and 
fourth entering the eye, fifth largest; three or four lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer 
than the posterior. Scales in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 163-166 ; 
anal entire ; subcaudals 37-48. Uniform black. 
Total length 850 millim. ; tail 105. 
Natal. 
a, b. 2 (Se. 25; V. 166; C. 37) Durban. Mr. T. Ayres 5 J. H. 
& yg. (Sc. 27; V. 163; C. 48). ays EP xi 
(Types.) 
201. APARALLACTUS. 
Aparallactus, Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr., Rept., one p- 15 (1849). 
Elapomorphus (non Wiegm.), Smith, 1. ¢. p. 16. 
Uriechis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, Pp. 623; Jan, Arch, Zool. 
Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 48; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 110 
(1882 
PA NE Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) xi. 1863, p. 21, and 
Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 157 (1895). 
Maxillary short, with 6 to 9 small teeth followed by a large 
grooved fang situated below the eye; anterior mandibular teeth 
