646 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE 



O. BOODON. 



Duni. & Bibr. Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. 1853, p. 460; Bouleng. 

 Cat. Sn. i. p. 327. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Scales ill 21 or 23 rows ; prseocular not extending to upper surface of head. 

 Three upper labials entering the e3'e ; a single anterior temporal . JB. lemniscatus. 

 Two upper labials entering the eye ; 2 or 3 superposed anterior 



temporals S. erlangeri. 



II. Scales in 25 to 33 rows ; pr»ocular extending to upper surface of head. 

 Parietals longer than the distance between the frontal and the end 



of the snout J5. lineatus. 



Parietals as long as the distance between the frontal and the end 



of the snout S.fuliginosus. 



1. BooDON LEMNISCATUS Dum. & Bibr, Erp. Gen. vii. p. 365 ; 

 Bouleng. t. c. p. 329. 



LampropMs rogeri Mocquard, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1904, p. 307, 

 and 1905, p. 289. 

 Abyssinia. 



2. B.OODON ERLANGERI Sternf. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 1908, 

 p. 92. 



Somaliland. 



3. BooDON LINEATUS Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 363 ; 

 Bouleng. t. c. p. 332. 



Ti'opical and South Africa ; S. Arabia. 



4. BoODON FULIGINOSUS. 



Lycodon fuliginosus Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 551. 



Boodon fuliginosus Bouleng. t. c. p. 334. 



Mauritania to N. Nigeria, eastwards to tlie Egyptian Soudan. 



4. Lycophidium. 



Dam. & Bibr. Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. 1853, p. 462; Bouleng. 

 Cat. Sn. i. p. 336. 



Two species : — 



Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep L. capense. 



Rostral but little broader than deep L. abi/ssinicum . 



1. Lycophidium capense. 



Lycodon ccqyensis A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. i. no. 5, 

 1831, p. 18. 



Lycophidmm capense Bouleng. t. c. p. 339. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



2. Lycophidium abyssinicum Bouleng. t. c. p. 342, pi. xxii. 

 fig. 1. 



Abyssinia. 



