52. P3EUDA.SPIS, 373 



Scales in ]5 rows. Ventrals 22 -t ; anal entire; subcaudals 86. 

 Dark brown above with three white stripes; upper head-shields 

 edged with white ; upper lip, outer row of scales, and lower surfaces 

 white. 



Total length 360 millim. ; tail 80. 



Habitat unknown. 



o. ? (V. 224; 0.86). ? Haslar Collection. (Type.) 



52. PSEUDASPIS. 



Duberria, part., Fitzing. N: Clais. Hept. p. 29 (1826). 



Coluber, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 125 (1837). 



Coronella, part., Bum. Sf Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 607 (1854) ; Giinth. 

 Cat. Col. Sn. p. 34 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, 

 p. 236. ^ 



Pseudaspis, Cope, Proo. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 168. 



Cadmus {nan Bory), Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soo. Mu^s. p. 58 (1868). 



Maxillary teeth 12 to 14, posterior longest ; anterior mandibular 

 teeth much longer than the posterior. Head slightly distinct from 

 neck ; eye moderate or rather small, with round pupil. Internasal 

 entering the nostril. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, with apical 

 pits, in 27 to 31 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate ; sub- 

 caudals in two rows. 



South Africa. 



1. Pseudaspis cana. 



Coluber canus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. i. p. 31, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1754), 



and S. N. i. p. 382 (1766) ; Merr. Beitr. Nat. Amph. i. p. 27, pi. ix. 



(1790) ; Baud. Rept. -vi. p. 359 (1803) ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 



p. 155, pi. vi. figa. 7 & 8 (1837) ; SmUh, III. Zool. 8. Afr., Rept. 



pis. xiv.-xvii. (1842). 

 Duberria cana, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 55 (1826). 

 Coronella cana, Bum. 8r Bibr. vii. p. 613 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 40 



(1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 253. 

 Pseudaspis cana. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 168. 

 Cadmus cunsiformis, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 58, 



and Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 163 (1876). 

 Coronella phocarum, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 836. 



Snout rather prominent, with angular canthus rostralis and ver- 

 tical slightly concave lores ; rostral considerably deeper than broad, 

 the portion visible from above about half as long as its distance from 

 the frontal ; siiture between the internasals as long as or longer than 

 that between the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as or longer than its 

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

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one praeocular ; two or three 

 postoculars, and a subocular separating the fifth labial from the eye ; 

 temporals 2-1-3 or 3-f4; seven upper labials, fourth entering the 

 eye ; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 27 to 31 

 rows. Ventrals 175-212; anal divided ; subcaudals 50-70. Young 



