16 



9 Sibudeni, Zululand 

 „ Lessouto, Basutoland . 

 <J Krugersdorp, Transvaal 



-f »» >) • 



<J Barberton, „ 



5 Great Namaqualand, P.M. 

 ^ Damaraland . 



„ S. Africa (A. Smitb) 



? 



<? 



112 39 35 14 27 13-11 20 



Columns as in the preceding table, p. 12. 



Habitat. — Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Natal, Basutoland, Trans- 

 vaal, Great Namaqualand,* Damaraland. 



The specimens in the South African Museum are from the foUovring 

 localities : Knysna, Kentani, TJitenhage, Port Elizabeth, Burghersdorp, 

 East London, Encobo, and West Pondoland, in Cape Colony ; TJmvoti 

 in Natal; Morija in Basutoland; and Johannesburg in the Transvaal. 



3. NUCEAS BOULENGERI. 



Nucras houlengeri, 0. Neumann, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) v, 1900, 

 p. 56; Sternfeld, in Schubotz, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Z.-Afr. Exped. 

 iv, ii, p. 222 (1912) ; Nieden, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. vii, 1913, p. 76 ; 

 Bouleng. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xiii, 1917, p. 205. 



" Body elongate ; head not depressed, its length (to ear-opening) 

 contained 4| to 5 times in the dength from snout to vent ; two post- 

 nasals ; no granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; 

 interparietal not so long and narrow as in N. tessellata and N. delalandii ; 

 occipital very small ; subocular bordering the lip between the fourth 

 and fifth upper labials ; two supratemporals bordering the parietals ; 

 tympanum half as large as the ear-opening. Dorsal scales small, 

 pointed behind, larger on the sides of the body ; 45 to 53 scales round 

 the body; ventrals iu 6 longitudinal and 27 to 30 transverse series. 

 Femoral pores 11 or 12. Foot much shorter than the head. Tail 



* Specimens sent to the Paris Museum by F. de Castelnau. The occurrence 

 of this species in the Western parts of South Africa had been questioned by 

 Hewitt, Ann. Transv. Mus., ii, 1910, p. 114. 



