444 THE SNAKES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



Snout rounded . . . . . . . . . . . . G. scutifrons. 



Snout with the praeoral part concave, appearing sHghtly 



hooked in profile . . . . . . . . . . G. distanti. 



II. No supraocular . . . . . . . . . . . . G. labialis. 



1. Glauconia nigricans. 



Typhlops nigricans, Schleg. Abbild. p. 38, pi. xxxii. figs. 21-24. 

 Glauconia nigricans, Bouleng., t.c, p. 67. 

 South Africa. 



Cape Colony : Kentani (Kolbe) ; Swellendam (Fr}') ; Engcobo (Weis- 

 becker) ; Port Ehzabeth (Weale, Drege). 



2. Glauconia conjuncta. 



Stenostoma conjunctum, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. i., 1861, p. 189. 



Glauconia conjuncta, Bouleng., t.c, p. 67. 



South and East Africa. 



Cape Colony : S\%-ellendam (Fry) ; Engcobo (Weisbecker) ; Aliwal 



North (Weisbecker) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Basutoland : Korokoro (Sclater). 

 Natal: Umvoti (Frj'). 

 Transvaal: Lydenburg (Fry) ; Modderfontein (Purcell). 



3. Glauconia gracilior, sp. n. 

 Cape Colony. 



Van Rvnsdorp (.\. W. Rogers) ; Matjesfontein (Purcell) ; Clanwilliam 

 (I.eipoldt). 



4. Glauconia scutifrons. 



Stenostoma scutifrons, Peters Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 621. 

 Glauconia scutifrons, Bouleng., t.c, p. 68. 



Glauconia latifrons, Sternfeld, Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl,, 1908, p. 94. 

 South Africa, Angola. 



Cape Colony : Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Natal : Umvoti (Fry). 

 Transvaal : Pietersburg (Daneel). 



Southern Rhodesia : Bulawayo (Kolbe) ; Matoppo Hills (Pillans) 

 Salisbury (Marshall). 



5. Glauconia distanti, Bouleng. in Distant, Nat. Transv. p. 175, fig., 



and t.c, p. 62. 

 Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia, British Central Africa. 

 Transvaal: Pretoria (Gough) ; Pietersburg (Daneel). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Palapye, Bechuanaland (Fry) 



6. Glauconia labialis, Sternfeld, t.c, p. 92. 

 South- West Africa. 



Family BOID^. 

 A single Genus in South Africa. 



1. PYTHON. 



Daud. Hist. Rept. v. p. 266 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 85. 



I. Python seb.e. 



Coluber sebce, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 11 18. 



Python sebcd, Bouleng., t.c, p. 86. 



Natal, Zululand, Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia, Portuguese East 



Africa, Tropical Africa. 

 Natal : Durban (Bowker). 

 Southern Rhodesia: Salisbury (Thomas). 



