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Lycophidium capense. 



Lycodon capensis, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. No. 5, 1831, p. 18. 

 Lycophidium capense, Bouleng., t.c, p. 339. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Cape Colony : Grahamstown (Schonland) ; Port Elizabeth (Moor- 

 house) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Natal : Durban (Bowker). 

 Transvaal : Johannesburg (Elleman). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Mazoe (Darling) ; Salisbury (Marshall, Thomas). 



Lycophidium semiannulis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 622 ; 



Bouleng., t.c, p. 339. 

 Portuguese East Africa, Zululand. 



6. SIMOCEPHALUS. 

 Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 194 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 344. 



Two Species in South Africa. 



Frontal a little shorter than the parietals ; two post- 

 oculars ; ventrals 203-241 . . . . . . . . S. capensis. 



Frontal much shorter than the parietals ; a single post- 

 ocular ; ventrals 1 71-185 .. .. .. .. S. nyassce. 



t. SiMOCEPHALUS CAPENSIS. 



Heterolepis capensis, Smith, 111., Rept. pi. Iv. 



Siniocephalus capensis, Bouleng., t.c, p. 345. 



Central Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Natal. 



Natal : Durban (Bowker) ; Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury (Marshall). 



2. SiMOCEPHALUS NYASS^, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) i., 1888, p. 328; 

 Bouleng., t.c, p. 347, pi. xxiii. fig. 2. 

 East and Central Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, Transvaal. 

 Natal: Durban (Bowker). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (Pcringuey). 



7. PSEUDASPIS. 

 Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1864, p. 168 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 373. 



I. PSEUDASPIS CANA. 



Coluber cana, Linn. S. N. i. p. 382. 



Pseudaspis cana, Bouleng., I.e. 



South Africa to Angola and British East Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Division (Smith, Bishop, Layard, Southey, Oakley, 

 Kolbe) ; Tzitzikamma River (Harrison) ; Beaufort West (Jack- 

 son) ; Graaff-Reinet (Kannemeyer) ; Burghersdorp (Kanne- 

 meyer) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; T.somo, Transkei (Watermeyer) ; 

 Port EUzabeth (Drege, Moorhousc) ; Port NoUoth (Howard) ; 

 Hanover (Schreiner) ; Worcester (Payntcr) ; Little Namaqua- 

 land (Peringuey, Christensen, Scully). 



Natal (Sanderson). 



Orange Free State : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



Transvaal: Johannesburg (Ross) ; Modderfontein (Haagner). 



Southern Rhodesia: Mazoe (Darling); Salisbury (Thomas). 



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