458 



THE SNAKES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



East Africa, Southern Rhodesia, 



Salisbury 



1. Naia haie. 

 Coluber haie, Linn. S. N. i. p. 387. 

 Naia haie, Bouleng., i.e., p. 374. 

 Southern Palestine, North and 



Zululand, Transvaal. 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (Dc Coster). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Hunyani River (Thomas, Darling) 



(Darling). 



2. Naia ANCHiETiC, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. vii. 1879, p. 89 ; Bouleng., t.c, 



P- 387- 

 Angola and South-West Africa, North- West Rhodesia. 



Livingstone, North- West Rhodesia (Sykes). 



3. Naia flava. 



Vipera flava, Mcrrem, Tent. Sj'st. Amph. p. 154. 

 Naia flava, Bouleng., t.c, p. 376. 

 Cape Colony, South-West Africa. 

 Cape Town (Fairbridge) ; Worcester (Le 

 (Kannemeyer) ; Douglas (Orpcn) ; 



Fevrc) ; 

 Calcdon 



Burghersdorp 

 Rivcrsdale ; 



Knysna ; Port Elizabeth (Moorhouse) ; &c. 



Naia nigricollis, Reinh. Vid. Selsk. Skrift. x. 1843, p. 269, pi. iii. 



figs. 5-7 ; Bouleng., t.c, p. 378. 

 From Senegambia and Upper Egypt to Angola, South-West Africa, 



Little Namaqualand, Southern Rhodesia, the Transvaal, and 



Natal. 

 Cape Colony: Little Namaqualand (Schlechter). 

 Natal : Victoria Countj' (Bowker). 



Transvaal : Barberton (Rcndall) ; Modderfontein (Haagner). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Mazoe (Darling). 

 South-West Africa : Damaraland (Hutchinson). 



29. SEPEDON. 

 Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. p. 146 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 388. 



SePEDON HiEMACHATES. 



Coluber hcemachata, Lacep. Hist. Scrp. ii. p. 121. 



Sepedon hamachates, Bouleng., t.c, p. 389. 



Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South-West Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Peninsula (Bishop, Howes, Turlcy, Carr) ; Tulbagh 

 (Kleinschmidt) ; Tsomo, Transkei (Watermeyer) ; Beaufort West 

 (Rice) ; George (Leipoldt). 



Basutoland : Morija (Dyke). 



Transvaal : Johannesburg (Fry) ; Krugersdorp (Watson) ; Modder- 

 fontein (Haagner). 



30. ASPIDELAPS. 

 Smith, 111., Rept., App. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 390. 

 Two Species. 



Internasals in contact behind the rostral ; third and 

 fourth upper labials entering the eye ; scales all 

 smooth; ventrals 146-176 .. .. .. .. A. lubricus. 



Internasals separated by the rostral ; fourth upper labial 

 entering the eye ; scales on posterior part of body 

 keeled; ventrals 11 5-135 .. .. .. ..A sculatus. 



