52 



COLTIBEID^. 



or blackish transverse rhomlDoidal spots or cross-bars on the body ;; 

 head without any spots or markings ; yellowish white beneath. 



Total length 700 millim. ; tail 120. 



Tropical Africa. 



a. $ (V. 230 ; 0. 63). 



b. 2 (V. 224; 0.73). 



c. S (V. 237; 0.66). 



d. $ (V. 228; C. ?). 



e. ? (V. 224; 0.64). 



/. Hgr. ?(V.22.5;C. 



68). 

 ff. cJ (V. 224; 0. ?). 



Zanzibar Ooast. 

 Mombasa. 

 Ugogo. 

 Tanganyika. 

 Lake Nyassa. 



Lake Nyaasa. 



Loanda. 



H. W. Lane, Esq. [0.]. 

 Mr. Baxter [0.1. 

 Sir J. Kirk [0.]. 

 Miss M. Woodward 



Universities Mission. 



(Type of L. 

 annulata.) 



semi-' 



' 7. Tarbophis guentheri. 



? Coluber dhara, Forsk. JDescr. Anim. p. 14 (1775) ; Baud. JRept. vi. 



p. 257 (1803). 

 Telescopus obtusua {non JReuss), Jan, Icon. O&n. 38, pi. i. iig. 4 



(1871). 

 Tarbophis guentheri, Anders. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 656, pi. xxxvi. 



fig. 3. 



Agrees with T. obiusus, except in having the scales in 19 or 

 21 rows and the anal entire. Nine or ten upper labials, third,' 

 fourth, and fifth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye. 

 Ventrals 205-274; subcaudals 69-75. 



Total length 1045 millim. ; tail 160. 



Arabia ; East Africa. 



a. c? (Sc.21; V.236; 

 O.P). 



b. S (Sc,21; V.240; 

 0.?). 



c-d. (J (Sc. 21; V. 



236; 0. ?) & hgr. 



(Sc. 21; V. 239; 



0. 72.) 

 e,f. S (Sc. 21; V. 



264; 0. 69) & ? 



(Sc. 21; V. 274; 



0. 75). 

 g. t? (Sc. 19 ; V. 205 ; 



0. 72). 



Lahej, near Aden. 



Sheikh Othman, 



near Aden. 

 Hadramaut. 



Muscat. 



Ool. Yerbury "i 



[JP-]- 

 Col. Yerbury 



Dr.J.Anderson ''^ ^^ -T 



[P.]. 



A. S. G. Jayakar, Esq. [P.]r 

 (Types.) 



Ngatana,E. Africa. Dr. J. W. Gregory [P.], 

 8. Tarbophis obtusus. 



Savigny, Descr. Egypte, JRept., Suppl. pi. v. fig. 1 (1829). 



Coluber obtusus, Meuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 137. 



Dipsas segyptiacus, Sehleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 274 (1837), and AbhUdr 



pi. xlv. figs. 19 & 20 (1844). 

 Telescopus obtusus, Bum. §■ Bibr. vii. p. 1066 (1864) ; Mooq. Mim. 



Cent. Soc. Philom. p. 133 (1888). 

 Tarbophis obtusus, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (2) xv. 1895, p. 15 ; 



Anders. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 658. 



Boatral broader than deep, scarcely visible from above; inter- 



