454 THE SNAKES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



19. RHAMPHIOPHIS. 



Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac, 1854, p. 624 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 144. 



A single Species in South Africa. 



I. RHAMPHIOPHIS MULTIMACULATUS. 



Coronella muUimaculata, Smith, 111., Kept. pi. Ixi. 



Rhamphiophis multimaciilatus , Bouleng., t.c, p. 148. 



Northern parts of Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South-West Africa. 



Cape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Howard) ; Kenhardt (Schlechter) ; 



Hanover (Schreiner) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer). 

 Orange Free State : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



20. PSAMMOPHIS. 

 Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 521 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 152. 

 Ten Species in South Africa. 



I. Scales in 17 rows ; ventrals 154-198. 



A. Anal entire ; two prasoculars . . . . . . P. notostictus. 



B. Anal divided (rarely entire). 



1. Praeocular extensively in contact with the 



frontal ; forehead concave ; two labials 



entering the eye . . . . . . . . P. furcatus. 



2. Praeocular narrowly in contact with or 



separated from the frontal. 



a. Two praeoculars ; rostral considerably 



broader than deep. 



8 upper labials, 3 entering the eye . . . , . . P. transvaaliensis. 



9 upper labials, 2 entering the eye . . . . . . P. trigrammus. 



9 upper labials, 3 entering the eye . . . . . . P. bocagii, 



b. A single praeocular ; rostral as deep as 



broad or slightly broader than deep ; 

 two labials entering the eye. 

 Frontal, in the middle, narrower than the supraocular ; 



sub-caudals 90-116 . . .. .. .. .. P. sibilans. 



Frontal, in the middle, nearly as broad as the supra- 

 ocular ; sub-caudals 64-95 . . . . . , . . P. brevirostris. 



II. Scales in 15 rows. 



Praeocular extensively in contact with the frontal ; 



ventrals 165-177 . . . . . . . . . . P. jallcs, 



Praeocular not reaching the frontal ; ventrals 136-155 P. crucifer. 



III. Scales in 13 rows ; ventrals 141-155 . . . . P. angolensis. 



I. PsAMMOPHis NOTOSTICTUS, Pcters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1867, p. 237 ; 

 Bouleng., t.c, p. 156, 



South Africa, Angola, Lower Congo. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (Rosser, Lightfoot) ; Stellenbosch (Francke); 

 Grahamstown ; Middelburg (Piers) ; Victoria West (Piers) ; 

 Touw's River (Le Fevre) ; Beaufort West (Jackson) ; Graaff- 

 Reinet (Paynter) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Malmesbury 

 Division (Kisel) ; Ceres (Purcell) ; Caledon (Burges) ; Robertson 

 (Melle) ; Hanover (Schreiner) ; Port St. Johns (Shortridge) ; 

 Little Namaqualand (Schlechter). 



Orange Free State : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



South- West Africa : Damaraland (Nightingale). 



