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4. Chlorophis MACROPS. 



Oligolepis macrops Bouleng. op. cit. iii. p. 644. 

 Chlorophis macrops Sternf. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 1908, 

 p. 95. 



German East Africa. 



5. Chlorophis neglectus. 



Philothammis neglectus Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. ISRG, p. 890, 

 and Reise Mossamb. iii. p. 130, pi. xix. A, fig. 2. 

 Chlorophis neglectus Bouleng. op. cit. ii. p. 94. 

 East and Central Africa, S. Rhodesia. 



6. Chlorophis heterolepidotus. 



Ahceiulla heterolejridota Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1863, 

 p. 286. 



Chlorophis heterolepidotus Bouleng. t. c, p. 95. 



Chlorophis gracilis Sternf. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. v. 1910, 

 p. 64. 



Tropical Africa. 



7. Chlorophis irregularis. 



Cohiber irregularis Leach, in Bowdich, Miss. Ashantee, 

 p. 494. 



Chlorophis irregularis Bouleng. t. c. p. 96. 



Senegambia and Uganda to Damaraland and S. Rhodesia. 



9. Philothamnus. 

 A. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. ii. p. 98. 



1. Philothamj^us semivariegatus a. Smith, t. c. pis. lix., !x., 

 it Ixiv. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. t. c. p. 99. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



10. Gastroptxis. 



Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 556; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. ii. 

 p. 102. 



Two species : — 



Temporals 1 + 2 ; scales strongly keeled G. smaragdiita. 



Temporals 2 + 2; scales feebly keeled G. orientalis. 



1. Gastropyxis smaragdina. 



Dendrophis smaragdina Schleg, Phys. Serp. ii. p. 237. 

 Gastropyxis smaragdina Bouleng. t. c. p. 103. 



Tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone and Uganda to the Oono-o 

 and Northern Angola. 



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