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2. Tropidonotus olivaceus. 



Coronella olivacea, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 622. 

 Tropidonotus olivaceus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 227. 

 Tropical Africa to Southern Rhodesia. 

 Mashonaland : Salisbury (Marshall). 



2. ABLABOPHIS. 

 Bouleng. Cat, Sn. i. p. 318. 



I. AblaboPhis refulus. 



Coronella rufiila, Lichtenst, Veru. Doubl. Mus. Berlz. p. 105. 



Ablabophis rtifulus, Bouleng., t.c. 



South Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (de Souza, Oakley) ; Robben Island (Fisk) ; 

 Stellenbosch (Peringuey) ; Knysna (Groom) ; Port St. Johns 

 (Shortridge) ; Touw's River, Worcester (Le Fevrc) ; Prince 

 Albert (Purcell) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Clanwilliam 

 (Leipoldt) ; George (Leipoldt) ; Port Elizabeth (Drege, Moor- 

 house) ; Albany District (French). 



Natal : Durban (Bowker, Sanderson). 



Transvaal : Modderfontein (Haagner). 



South- West Africa: Damaraland (Palgrave). 



3. LAMPROPHIS. 



Smith, 111., Rept. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 320. 



Four Species. 



I. Scales in 23 rows. 



Internasals a little shorter than the praefrontals ; loreal 



a little longer than deep . . . . . . . . L. aurora. 



Internasals much shorter than the praefrontals ; loreal at 



least nearly twice as long as deep . . . . . . L. inornatus. 



Internasals longer than the praefrontals ; loreal as long as 



deep or a little longer than deep . . . . . . L. fiskii. 



II. Scales in 19 rows .. .. .. ., .. L.fuscus. 



1. Lamprophis aurora. 



Coluber aurora, Linn. S. N. i. p. 379. 

 Lamprophis aurora, Bouleng., t.c, p. 321. 

 Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal. 



Cape Colon}' : Cape Town (Stevens, Gardiner, E. A. Morris), Burghers- 

 dorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Orange Free State : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 

 Transvaal : Modderfontein (Haagner). 



2. Lamprophis inornatus, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 464. 

 Cape Colony. 



Cape Town (French). Also 2655. 



3. Lamprophis fiskii, Bouleng. P.Z.S., 1887, p. 398, pi. xxxiv., and t.c. 



p. 322. 

 Cape Colony. 

 Worcester (Le Fevre). 



4. Lamprophis fuscus, Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 322, pi. xx., fig. 4. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



