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scales round the body. Diameter of body 70 times in the total 

 length, length of tail 9 times. Plesh-colour. 



Total length 208 miUim. 



Mozambique. 



16. Glauconia brevicauda. 



Stenostoma breyicauda, Socage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xi. 1887, p. 194. 

 Glauconia brevicauda, Bouleng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) vi. 1890, 

 p. 92. 



Resembles S. nigri-cans, but differs in the narrower rostral and 

 much shorter tail, -which measures hardly twice its basal diameter 

 and is contained 25 to 30 times in the total length. Diameter of 

 body 57 times in the total length. Chocolate- brown above, greyish 

 white inferiorly. 



Total length 170 miUim. 



Dahomey and Ashantee, West Africa. 



a. Ad. Ashantee. 



17. Glauconia nigricans. 



Typhlops nigricans, Schleg. Ahhild. [p. 38, pi. xxxii. flgs. 21-24 



(1844). 

 Stenostoma ni^-icans, Dunt. Sf Bibr. vi. p. 326 (1844). 

 Glauconia nigricans, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 139 (1845). 

 Stenostoma nigricans, part., Smith, Ilf. Zool. 8. Afr., Mept. pis. U. 



%. 4, & liv. flg. 25 (1846) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 88, 1. 2. pis. v. & vi. 



fig. 8 (1864) ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 102 (1882). 



Snout rounded ; supraocular present, small ; rostral as broad as 

 or a Httle. broader than the nasal, extending to the level of the 

 anterior border of the eyes ; nasal completely divided into two ; 

 ocular bordering the lip, between two labials, the anterior of which 

 is very small : five lower labials. 14 scales round the body. 

 Diameter of body 40 to 53 times in the total length, length of taU 

 8 to 13 times. Brown or blackish, the scales edged with lighter. 



Total length 160 millim. 



South Africa. 



a. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Su- A. Smith [P.]. 



b. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Dr. J. Lee [P.]. 



e. Ad. Port Elizabeth. A. E. Craven, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Several specs.. Port Elizabeth. J. P. M. "Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. & hgr. 



e-f. Ad. & hgr. Port Elizabeth. H. A. Spencer, Esq. [P.]. 



18. Glauconia conjuncta. 



Stenostoma nigricans, part.. Smith, III. Zool. 8. Afr., Rept. pi. liv. 



fig. 21 (1846) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 38 (1864) ; Peters, Reise n. 



Mossamb. iii. p. 102 (1882). 

 conjunctum, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. i. 1861, p. 189, and 



Icon. Gin. 2, pis. v. & vi. fig. 9 (1861). 



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