298 ON THE SNAKES OF WEST AFRICA. 



1. AtRACTASPIS IRREGULARIS. 



Elaps irregularis Reinh. Vid. Selsk. Skr. x. 1843, p. 264, pi. iii. 

 figs. 1-3. 



Atractaspls irregularis Bouleng. t. c. p. 513. 



West and Central Africa, from the Gold Coast and Uganda to 

 the Congo. 



2. Atractaspis reticulata Sjostedt, Zool. Anz. 1896, p. 516. 

 Cameroon. 



3. Atractaspis heterochilus Bouleng. Ann. Mas. Congo, 

 Zool. iii. p. 13, pi. V. fig. 1. 



Cameroon, Ituri, Tanganyika. 



4. Atractaspis matschiensis Werner, Yerh. zool. -hot. Ges. 

 Wien, xlvii. 1897, p. 404. 



Cameroon. 



5. Atractaspis caudalis Sternf. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 

 1908, p. 94. 



Gold Coast. 



6. Atractaspis corpulenta. 



Brachycranium corpulentum Hallow. Proc. Ac. Pliilad. 1854, 

 p. 99. 



Atractasjils corpulenta Bouleng. Cat. Sn. iii. p. 514. 

 Liberia to Congo, eastwards to the Ituri. 



7. Atractaspis boulengeri Mocquard, Bull. )Soc. Philom. (8) 

 ix. 1897, p. 16. 



Ogowe. 



8. Atractaspis aterrima Giinth. Ann. & Mfig. N. H. (3) xii. 

 1863, p. 363 ; Bouleng. t. c. p. 515. 



Gold Coast to Niger, eastwards to Uganda. 



9. Atractaspis daiiomeyexsis Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xi. 1887, 

 p. 196; Bouleng. t. c. p. 516. 



Dahomey. 



10. Atractaspis micropholis Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) 

 ix. 1872, p. 36, pi. iii. fig. E ; Bouleng. t. c. p. 516. 



Senegambia, Northern Nigeria. 



11. Atractaspis watsonii Bouleng, Ann. k, Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 

 1908, p. 93. 



Atractaspis nigra Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1909, p. 414. 

 Mauritania, French Soudan, Northern Nigeria. 



