880 MK. A. LOVHaiDOE: NOTKS ON 



I have nover soen the resemblance of this snake to tlie Mnclc 

 phase of Dispholidus typus i-eniarked upon. Their similarity of 

 appearance is extraordinary and when alive they are indistin- 

 guishable, except perhaps for the slightly larger eye of the 

 IJoomslang — both are tree-snakes and found in the same locality at 

 times. Like all snakes that are large and black they are indis- 

 criminately called " Black Mambas" by the European residents. 



CoRONELLA SEMiouNATA Peters. 

 Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. 1894, p. 195. 



Two oxain|>les from T)a,r cs Salaain iiiul Sngayo, Mwnn/Ji. 



The latter specimen is veiy juvenile (210 mm. over all), and 

 has a small scale between the rostral, interuasals, and nasals, 

 apparently split off from the rostral. 



CORONELLA SCHEFFLERI Sternf. 



Sternf. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 1908, p. 93. 



I have not been so fortunate as to collect this rare snake 

 myself, but a specimen in the Nairobi Museum was obtained by 

 Oapt. llainsford just south of Lake Rudolph in 1918. This new- 

 record is, therefore, far north of the type-locality Kibwezi on the 

 Uganda Railway. 



Grayia tuglloni Mocq. 



Mocq. Bull. Soc. Philom. (8) ix. 1897, p. 11. 



Mr. N. 0. Miller sent me a sy>ecimen for determination which 

 he had collected at Bukoba, 1922. 



Homalosoma lutrix Linn. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. 1894, p. 273. 



A single specimen from Kabare, Bukoba, 10. i.23. 



This female, though small (290-f38 mm.), Avas very bloated, 

 having no fewer than ten eggs, measuring 12x8 mm., in its 

 oviduct which extended forward to the region of the heai-t. 



Prosymna AMBiGUA Bocage. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. 1894, p. 248. 



Three specimens. One of these was taken in a termite nest at 

 Lumbo ; the other two Avere found in a bottle without data in 'a 

 German House at Morogoro. 



One of these had paired praefrontals and 155 ventral scutes. 



Dasypeltis scabra Linn. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. 1894, p. 354. 



Six specimens were collected from Jvilosa, Ivipera, and Zenger- 

 agusu in Tanganyika Territory and Lumbo in Poituguese East 

 Africa. 



