NOTES ON EAST AFRICAN SNAKES. 871 



43. Notes on East African Snakes, collected 1018-1923. 

 By AiiTHiJii LovEiuDGB, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S. 



[Received August 14, 1923 : Road November G, 1923.] 



The 221 snakes collected during 1915-1917 have already been 

 dealt with in a paper written in the field during the East Africa 

 Campaign*. The present paper deals with some 290 specimens, 

 of which 286 were collect'^d by the writer or his native collectors 

 during the years 1918-1923. Some few eailier captures are 

 referred to but not included in the figures. 



The present collection contains representatives of all the East 

 African families. 34 of tl»e 54 genera, and 57 of the 140 recorded 

 species. These numbers are distributed a-s follows : — 



No. of 

 Familif. Generci, Species. Specimens, 



Tvphlopidse 1 5 23 



GIauconiida3 1 4 15 



Tythonidao 118 



Colubrida) 28 . 41 201 



Viperidre 3 6 39 



Total ... 286 



Only two new species resulted from this material, viz. Typhlops 

 exceniricus Procter, and Geodipsas 2^'octerce Loveridge, whicii 

 have been described elsewhere. 



The principal localities mentioned in the following pages are :— 



Kenya Colony. 



Frere Town, Nairobi, Uasin Gishu Plateau. 



Tanganyika Territory. 



Dar es Salaam District. — Dar es Salaam. 



Lushoto District. — TJsambara Mtns., Gonja. 



Moshi District. — Kahe, Garagua. 



Arusha District. — Arusha, Longido Mt. 



Morogoro District. — Dakawa, Bagilo, Morogoro, Mkata River, 



Rudewa, Ilonga, Kimamba Stn., Chanzuru, Tiudiga, 



Kipera, Madazini, Kilosa, Kideti. 

 Irivf/a District. — llitmruli. 

 Dodoma District. — Pwnga, Itende, Mpanira, Ikikuyu, 



Kidenge, Mpwapwa, Dodoma, Suna, Gwao's. 



* Lovpiidgp, "Notes on Snakes in East Africa." Jour. E. A. & U.Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. No. 13, 1918, pij. 315-338. 



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