452 THE SNAKES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



2. HoMALOSOMA VARiEGATUM, Pctcrs, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 622; 

 Bouleng., t.c, p. 276. 

 Portuguese East Africa, Zululand. 

 Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



12. DASYPELTIS. 

 Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 178 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. ii. p. 353. 

 A single Species in South Africa. 



I. Dasypeltis scabra. 



Coluber scaber, Linn. S. N. i. p. 384. 



Dasypeltis scabra, Bouleng., t.c, p. 354. 



Tropical and South Africa, Egypt. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (Pillans) ; Swellendam (Cairncross) ; Wor- 

 cester (Le Fevre) ; Murraysburg (Tyson) ; East London (Wood) ; 

 Port St. Johns (Shortridge) ; Burghersdorp (Kanneme^-er) ; 

 Clanwilliam (Schlechter) ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; Graaff-Reinet 

 (Paynter) ; Port Ehzabeth (Drege) ; Little Namaqualand 

 (Warden) . 



Basutoland : Morija (Dyke). 



Natal : Durban (Bowker). 



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



Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury (Thomas, Darling). 



Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



B.—OPISTHOGL YPHM. 

 13. PYTHONODIPSAS. 

 Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) i.. 1868, p. 425 ; Bouleng. Cat. 

 Sn. iii. p. 45. 



I. Pythonodipsas carinata, Giinth., t.c, p. 426 ; Bouleng., I.e. 

 Zambesi, Damaraland. 

 Damaraland (Nightingale). 



14. TARBOPHIS. 



Eleischm. Dalm. nov. Serp. Gen. p. 17 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 47. 



A single Species in South Africa. 



I. Tarbophis semiannulatus. 



Telescopies semiannulatus, Smith, 111., Kept. pi. Ixxii. 



Tarbophis semiannulatus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 51. 



Basutoland, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Portuguese East Africa, Central and 



East Africa. 

 Basutoland : Sesheke (Jella). 

 Transvaal : Barberton (Randall). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



15. LEPTODIRA. 



Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 165 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 88. 



A single Species in South Africa. 



I. Leptodira hotambceia. 



Coronella hotambceia, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. p. 85. 



