614 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA, 
blackish brown, occiput and sides of head yellowish white; lower 
parts uniform white. 
Total length 310 millim.; tail 70. 
Madagascar. 
a, Hgr. (V. 188; ©. 64). S.W. Madagascar. Mr. Last (C.]. 
Add:— Page 317. Lycognathophis sechellensis. 
Liysognatnoplie seychellensis, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 
1894, p. 726. 
Page 320. Add a genus :— 
38 a. MICROPISTHODON. 
Micropisthodon, Mocquard, CR. Soc. Philom. 1894, no. 17, p. 7. 
Maxillary teeth 12; posterior maxillary and mandibular teeth 
shortest. Head not distinct from neck; eye rather large, with 
round pupil; nasal entire. Body slender, slightly compressed ; 
scales narrow, smooth, oblique, with apical pits,in 17 rows; ventrals 
rounded. Tail long; subcaudals in two rows. 
Madagascar. 
1. Micropisthodon ochraceus. 
Micropisthodon ochraceus, Moeg. /. ¢. p. 8. 
Rostral large, twice as broad as deep; internasals a little shorter 
than the prefrontals ; frontal as long as its distance from the end 
of the snout ; supraoculars longer than the frontal, nearly as long 
as the parietals ; loreal longer than deep; one or two pre- and 
two or three postoculars; temporals 2+2; eight upper labials, 
fourth and fifth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with 
the chin-shields, which are short. Scales in 17 rows, very finely 
striated. Ventrals 145; anal divided; subcaudals 138. Light 
ochraceous brown above, with fine darker dots and small spots ; two 
black lines on the neck, converging behind. 
Total length 687 millim.; tail 260. 
Nossi Bé. 
Page 324, Add a species :— 
2a. Gonionotophis klingii, 
Gonivnotophis klingi, Matschie, Siteb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. 1893, p. 172. 
Rostral hardly visible from above ; internasals much broader than 
long; prefrontals a little longer than broad; frontal as long as its 
distance from the rostral, shorter than the parietals; loreal more 
than twice as long as broad; one pree- and two postoculars; tem- 
porals 242; seven upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; 
five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
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