Si^AKES Oi^ AYEST AFRICA. 273 



2. Glaucuxia buubti Clialjiui. Bull. Mus. Paris 1917, p. 9, 

 figs. 



French Soiulau. 



3. GlAUCOXIA BREVICAUDA. 



Stenostoina hrevlcaada Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xi. 1887, p. 194. 

 Glaaconia hrevicauda Bouleug. t. c. p.. 67. 

 Daliomey and Asliantee, 



4. Glauconia sundevalli. 



Slenostoraa sundevalli Jan, Arcli. Zool. Anat. Pbys. i. 1862, 

 p. 191. 



Glaaconia sundevalli Bouleng. t. c. p. 68. 



Togoland. 



5. Glaucoxia gestri Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (3) ii. 1906, 

 p. 210, fig. 



Feiiiando Po and Cameroon. 



6. Glauconia bicolor. 



Stenostoma bicolor Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 40, 1. 1, pi. \". fig. 15. 

 Glauconia bicolor Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 69. 



Ciold Coast, Togoland. 



7. Glaucoxia gruveli. 



Glauconia bicolor yruceli Cliaban. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1916, 

 p. 367(1917)*. 



Dahomey. 



Family B o i i» .E. 

 Three genera : — 



Head distinct fvoui neck, with shields ahove ; rostral and anterior 



upper hiliials with deep pits : subcaudals paired Pi/thon. 



Head not distinct from neck, with shields above ; tail short, rounded 



at the end, witli single subcandals Calabai-ia. 



Head not distinct from neck, with small scales above; tail short, 



pointed, with single subcaudals Eryx. 



1. Pytkox. 

 Daud. Hist, tlept. V. p. 266 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 85. 

 Two species : — 



2 upper labials pitted ; scales in 81-93 rows ; subcaudals 63-77 F. seba'. 



4 upper labials pitted ; scales in 53-63 rows ; subcaudals 30-37 F. recfius. 



* In com])aring this snake with G. hicolor, M. Chabanaud has, through an over- 

 sight, given the length of the tail as the diameter. 



