444 THE SNAKES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



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



Snout with the praeoral part concave, appearing slightly 



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 (Fry) ; 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 : Swellendam (Fry) ; Engcobo (Weisbecker) ; Aliwal 



North (Weisbecker) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Basutoland : Korokoro (Sclater). 

 Natal: Umvoti (Fry). 

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



3. Glauconia graciliok, sp. n. 

 Cape Colony. 



Van Rynsdorp (A. W. Rogers) ; Matjesfontein (Purcell) ; Clanwilliam 

 (Leipoldt). 



4. Glauconia scutifrons. 



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

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



Glauconia latifvons, 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. 



I. PYTHON. 



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



I. Python seb^. 



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



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



Natal, Zululand, Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia, Portuguese East 



Africa, Tropical Africa. 

 Natal: Durban (Bowker). 

 Southern Rhodesia : Sahsbury (Thomas). 



