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71. Bottlengerina ajstnulata Buchh. & Ptrs. (Plate XXXII.) 



Naja annulate, Buchh. & Peters, Mori. Berl. Ac. 1876, p. 419 ; 

 Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) si. 1887, p. 84 ; Bocage, Herp. 

 Angola, p. 137(L895). 



Aspkldaps bocagii, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, 

 p. 205, pi. vi. fig. 2. 



Boulengerina annulata, Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. (8) ix. 

 1897, p. 14. 



Two perfectly typical young specimens (V. 227-230 ; C. 72, 70) 

 were obtained on the Benito River by Mr. Bates. The only 

 difference, apart from the markiugs, between this species and 

 B. stormsi Dollo resides in the number of scales (23 instead of 21), 

 and it is quite possible the two may have to be united when we 

 become acquainted with a larger number of specimens. 



Hab. Gaboon to Congo. 



72. Elapecms guentheri Bocage. 

 Hab. Gaboon to Angola ; jNyassaland, 



73. Naia melanolettca Hallow. 



Hub. Tropical Africa, from the Gambia and British East 

 Africa to Angola and the Zambesi. 



74. Xaia goldii Blgr. 



Pseudohaje nigra, Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 222 (1858), nee Naia 

 nigra, Smith. 



Naia goldii, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvi. 1895, p. 34, 

 and Cat. Sn. iii. p. 387, pi. xx. fig. 2 (1896). 



Naia giientJieri, Bouleng. Cat. t. c. p. 388, pi. xxi., and Ann. & 

 Mag. N. H. (6) xix. 1897, p. 154. 



Naia yakomce, Mocquard, C. R. Congr. Intern. Zool. Leyden, 

 1895, p. 233 (1896). 



Hab. Sierra Leone to Congo. 



A large specimen was obtained by Mr. Bates on the Benito 

 River. It has two pra)oculars on one side and one on the other ; 

 third and fourth upper labials entering the eye. Scales in 15 rows 

 on the neck as well as on the body; ventrals 199; subcaudals 92. 

 Uniform black above. I am now convinced that N. guentheri and 

 N. goldii cannot be maintained as distinct species. 



75. Dendraspis jamesoni Traill. 

 Hab. Niger to Angola ; Central Africa. 



76. Bins gabonica D. & B. 



Hab. Liheria to Damaraland ; Zanzibar ; Mozambique. 



77. Bins kasicornis Shaw. 

 Bab. Liberia to Gaboon. 



