LIST OF SOUTH AFRICAN SNAKES. 453 



Leptodira hotambaeia, Bouleng., t.c, p. 89. 



Tropical and South Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (dc Souza) ; Port Elizabeth (Moorhouse, 



Drege) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Clanwilliam (Leipoldt) ; 



Worcester (Purcell) ; East London (Wood) ; Port St. Johns 



(Shortridge) ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; Kimbcrlcy (French) ; 



Little Namaqualand (Schlechter). 

 Basutoland : Morija (Dyke). 



Natal : Pine Town (Bowker) ; Malvern (Bowker). 

 Transvaal : Barberton (Rendall). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury (Marshall). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



16. CHAM^TORTUS. 



Giinth. P.Z.S., 1864, p. 310 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 98. 



I. ChAM/ETORTUS aulicus. 



Giinth., I.e., pi. xxvi. fig. 2 ; Bouleng., I.e. 



East and Central Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Transvaal. 



Leydsdorp, Transvaal (Norton). 



17. AMPLORHINUS. 



Smith, 111., Rept. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 124. 



I. Amplorhinus multimaculatus, Smith, op. c, pi. Ivii. ; Bouleng., t.c, 

 p. 125. 

 Cape Peninsula. 

 Cape Peninsula (de Souza, Sclater). 



18. TRIMERORHINUS. 



Smith. 111., Rept. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 138. 



Two Species in South Africa. 



Eye as long as its distance from the nostril . . . . T. rhombeatus. 



Eye shorter than its distance from the nostril . . . . T. triteeniatus. 



1. Trimerorhinus rhombeatus. 

 Coluber rhombeatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 380. 

 Trimerorhinus rhombeatus, Bouleng., I.e. 



Psammophis longementalis, Roux, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxv., 1907, p. 736, 

 pi. xxvii. 



South Africa, Angola. 



Cape Colony : Cape Peninsula (Finlay, Sclater) ; Tulbagh (Klein- 

 schmidt) ; Touw's River (Le Fevre) ; Knysna (Groom) ; Burghers- 

 dorp (Kannemeyer) ; Robertson (Melle) ; Worcester (Payntcr) ; 

 Clanwilliam (Schlechter) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; George (Leipoldt) ; 

 Caledon (Burges) ; Uitenhage (O'Neil) ; Port Elizabeth (Moor- 

 house) ; Kimberley (French) ; Tsomo, Transkei (Watcrmcyer). 



Orange Free State : Harrismith (Ross). 



Transvaal : Lydenburg (Kilgour) ; Krugersdorp (Watson). 



2. Trimerorhinus trit^niatus. 



Rhagerrhis iritcsniata, Giinth., Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) i., 1868, p. 423. 



pi. xix. fig. H. 

 Trimerorhinus tritcsniatus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 139. 

 Northern parts of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Tropical Africa. 

 Cape Colony : Barkly West (Tucker) ; Kuruman (Moffat). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury (Marshall). 



