178 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



spots, and on the banks of rivers, and is occasionally observed 

 actually in water trying to capture frogs, &c., which form its 

 favourite food." — Smith. Cape, King William's Town, Natal 

 (B. M.) 



17. Booclon, D. & B. 



27. Boodon lineatus, D. & B. Lycodon geometricus (non 

 Schleg.), Smith, 111. pi. xxii. Bocedon lineattim, Dum. & Bibr. vii. 

 p. 363 ; Giinth. Col. Sn. p. 199. Bocedon capense, Dum. & Bibr. 

 vii. 15. 364. Bocedon quadrilineatum, Jan, Icon. 36, ii. 2 & 3. 

 " Barely seen in S. Africa ; resorts to dry and arid situations." — 

 SmitJi. Cape, King William's Town, Natal, Orange Biver, 

 Damaraland (B. M.) 



Black variety : B. inferncdis, Giinth. I. c. p. 199. Port Natal, 

 Port Elizabeth, Damaraland (B. M.) 



18. Heterolepis, Smith. 

 8 upper labials, 4th, 5th, and 6th entering the eye. - - capensis. 

 7 upper labials, 3rd and 4th entering the eye. - - - gueinzii. 



28. Heterolepis capensis, Smith, 111. pi. Iv. Eastern districts 

 of the Cape Colony (Smith). Desideratum in the British 

 Museum. 



29. Heterolepis gueinzii^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 163, 

 pi. — , fig. 2. Port Natal. Likewise a B. M. desideratum. 



19. Leptodira, Fitz. 



7 upper labials, 3rd and 4th entering the eye ; a single anterior 



temporal. punctata. 



8 upper labials, 3rd, 4th, and 5tli entering the eye ; a single anterior 



temporal. ... .... rufescens. 



9 upper labials, 3rd, 4th, and 5th entering the eye; two superposed 



temporals behind the postoculars. - - - . semiannulata. 



30. Leptodira, piunctata, Ptrs. Grotaphopeltis jmnctata, Peters, 

 Mon. Berl. Ac. 1866, p. 93. S. Africa, no precise locality. 



31. Leptodira rufescens, Gm. Crotaphopeltis rufescens, Smith, 

 111., Ai^p. p. 18; Jan, Icon. 39, ii. 1. Heterurus rufescens, 

 Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 1170. Leptodeira rufescens, Giinth. Col. 

 Sn. p. 165. " Inhabits most parts of S. Africa, but specimens 

 are most easily obtained near Cape Town and on the south- 

 eastern coast." — Smith. Cape, Port Elizabeth, Natal (B. M.) 



