948 MR. G. A. BOULENGER OX THE [DeC. 14, 



List of the specimens in the British Museum. 



1. Hgr.?. Sc. 20; V. 154; C. ? Efulen, S. Cameroon. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



2. (?. Sc. 19; V. 151; C. ? Bitye, 



3. Hgr. (?. Sc. 17; V. 145; C, 83. 



4. ? . Sc. 19 ; V. 157 ; C. 71. 



5. Yg. Sc. 17 ; V. 152 ; C. 79. Assobam, 



6. Yg. Sc. 20 ; V. 147 ; C. 84. Benito R., Spanish Guinea. „ 



7. (?. Sc. 19 ; V. 145 ; C. 79. Ogowe, Gaboon. Dr. W. J. Ansovge (C). 



8. Yg. Sc, 19 ; V. 143 ; C. ? Kehali, nr. Fernan Vaz. 



9. Yg. Sc. 19 ; V. 153; C. 80. Lambarene, Ogowe. Miss Kingsley (C). 

 10. Yg. Sc. 19 ; V. 145 ; C. ? Sette Cama, Gaboon. 



11.^. Sc. 19 ; V. 147 ; C. ? Gaboon. 



12. Yg. Sc. 17: V. 147; C. 82. 



13. Hgr. ? . Sc. 17 ; V. 143 ; C. 71. Kasayo, Congo. Dr. J. L. Todd (P.). 



14. Ys-. Sc. 17; V. 148; C. 74. Congo. 



15. S- Sc. 19; V. 150; C. 83. C. Africa. Warrington Museum (E.). 



Grayia smythii. 



Coluber smythii Leach, in Tuckey's Exj^lor. R. Zaire, App. p. 409 

 (1818). 



Coluber Icevis (non Lacep.), Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1844, 

 p. 118. 



Coronella triangularis Hallow. Free. Ac. Philad. 1854, p. 100. 

 Heteronotiis triangularis Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, 

 p. 68. 



Grayia silurophaga Gimth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 51 (1858); F. Miill. 

 Yei-h. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 683. 



Leionotus schlegeli Jan, Elenco Ofid. j). 68 (1863), and Arch. 

 Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 241. 



Grayia triangidaris Bocage, Jorn. Be. Lisb. i. 1866, p. 47; 

 Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1887-88, p. 51 ; Bocage, Herp. Angola, 

 p. 102 (1895). 



Grayia smythii, part., Bouleng. Cat. Sn. ii. p. 286 (1894); 

 Werner, Yerh. zool. -hot. Ges. Wien, xlix. 1899, p. 138 ; Boaleng. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 453 ; Sternfeld, Mitth. Mus. Berl. iv. 

 1908, p. 231. 



Grayia smythii Giinth. Ann. & Mag. IST. H. (6) xv. 1895, 

 p. 525. 



Eye rather small in the adult, shorter than its distance from 

 the nostril, as long as its distance from the oral border, larger in 

 the young. 22 to 25 niaxillaiy teeth on each side. Rostral once 

 and one third to once and a half as broad as deep, just visible 

 from above ; nasal divided or semidivided ; internasals as long as 

 broad or a little longer than broad, as long as or longer than the 

 praefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds to twice as long as 

 broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long- 

 as or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or 

 a little longer; one prte- and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 3, 

 lower anterior longer than its distance from the loreal, sometimes 

 as long as its distance from the rostral ; seven upper labials 



