232. NAIA. 3877 
Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) xi. 1887, p. 84; Bocage, 1. ¢. 
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Aspidelaps bocagii, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 205, 
pl. vi. fig. 2. : : 
Naja haje, var. leucosticta, Fvscher, Jahrb. Hamb, Wiss. Anst. ii. 
885, p. 115, pl. iv. fig. 11. 
— melanoleuca, Matschie, Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. vi. 1898, 
p. 214. 
Eye moderate, two fifths to one half the length of the snout. 
Rostral once and one third to once and a half as broad as deep, its 
upper portion measuring one fourth to one third its distance from 
the frontal; internasals shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal as 
long as broad or a little longer than broad, as broad as the supra- 
ocular, not longer than its distance from the rostral, one half to 
three fifths the length of the parietals; one preocular, rarely in 
contact with the internasal; two or three postoculars; temporals 
1+2 or 3; seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, 
sixth largest and in contact with the lower postoculars; three or 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior 
chin-shields as long as or a little shorter than the anterior, and in 
contact with each other anteriorly. 23-29 scales across the neck, 
19-21 across the middle of the body. Coloration very variable. 
Sides of head yellowish or whitish, some or all of the labials with 
posterior black edge. 
Total length 2400 millim. ; tail 400. 
Tropical Africa. | 
A.. Black, with a lighter angular marking or ring on the hood; 
anterior ventral region with yellowish cross-bars alternating 
with black ones. 
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a. 6 (Se. jo; V. 218; Niger Expedition. 
©. 2). 
b. g (Sc. =; V.217;C. Oil River. Sir H. H. Johnston 
67). [P.]. 
ce. Ad., skin (Se. =; V. Uganda. Mr. Baxter [C.]. 
212; C. P). 
B. As in the preceding (of which’ it is no doubt the young), but 
with white dots or edges to the dorsal scales; the white may 
be disposed in cross-bars, 
a-b. Yg. (Se. rf wi V.  Eloby, Gaboon. J,G. Fischer Collection. 
219, 215; ©. 68, 67). 
c. Yg. (Sc. 32; V. 208;  W. Africa. Mrs, Burton [P.]. 
C. ?). 
d, Yg. (Se. = V. 204; W. Africa. 
C. 67). 
