332 COLTJBEID^. 



72. Yellowish brown above, witli several rows of reddish-brown 

 spots with umber-brown borders, the two rows of spots along the 

 middle of the back almost circular and largest ; a dark brown 

 blotch on each side of the back of the head, and a pair of dark 

 longitudinal streaks on the nape ; underparts pale yellow. 



Total length 402 millim. ; tail 87. 



Interior of South Africa. 



6. Boodon lineatus. 



Lycodon geometricus {non Schleg.), Smith, III. Zool. S. A/i:, Mept. 



pi. xxii. (1843). 

 Bosedon lineatum, Dum. §• Bibi\ vii. p. 363 (1854) ; Gi'mth. Cat. 



p. 200 (1858); Souleng. Zoologist, 1887, p. 178; Boettg. Ber. 



Qffenb. Ver. Nat. 24-25, 1885, p. 184, and Bei: Sench. Ges. 1887- 



88, p. 69, and 1889, p. 294; Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xii. 



1891, p. 18 ; Bedfiaga, Amph. et Jtept. I. de Guinee [Istituto, 



xxxix.), p. 32 (1892). 

 eapense. Bum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 364 ; A. Bum. Arch. Mtis. x. 



1859, p. 194, pi. xvii. fig. 3. 



quadrivittatum. Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 54. 



quadrilineatum, A. Bum. I. c. p. 193, fig. 4 ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



36, pi. ii. figs. 2 & 3 (1870) ; Peters, lieise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 133 



(1882). 

 Alopecion variegatum, Bocage, Jurn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, p. 230 ; 



Gilnth. Zool. Bee. 1867, p. 141. 

 Boodon geometricum, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xi. 1887, p. 199. 

 bipraeocularis, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (6) i. 1888, p. 330, 



pi. xviii. fig. B. 



Ej'e rather small. Eostral broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals shorter than the praef rentals ; frontal once and a 

 half to twice as long as broad, as long as or a little longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as or shorter than the 

 parietals ; latter shields longer than the distance between the 

 frontal and the end of the snout ; loreal longer than deep ; one or 

 two prseoculars, extending to the upper surface of the head and 

 frequently in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 l-)-2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth (rarely also third) 

 entering the eye ; three or four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior, or a little 

 longer. Scales in 25 to 31 rows. Ventrals 192-237 ; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 47-70. Brown above, uniform or variegated with 

 yellowish, with or without a yellow lateral streak ; side of head ' 

 light, the brown of the upper surface ending in a point on the 

 snout, with a dark brown lateral streak passing through the eye, 

 and brown spots on the labials, or head dark brown with two more 

 or less distinct light lines on each side ; lower parts yellowish. 



Total length 870 millim. ; tail 110. 



Tropical and South Africa. 



