168. BHAMPHIOPHIS. 147 



"the posterior. Scales in 17 rows (21 or 23 on the neck). Ventrals 

 148-192; anal divided; subcaudals 90-110. Yellowish, or pale 

 hrown above, uniform or with small red or dark brown spots, or with 

 dark brown margins to the scales ; a blackish shade in front of and 

 behind the eye ; upper lip and lower parts yellowish white. 



Total length 1380 millim. ; tail 420. 



Tropical Africa. 



.«-&.(?(¥. 151, 148; 0.94, Lamu, E. Africa. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



100). [P.]. 



c. Ye. (V. 183; C. ?). Taveta, E. Africa. K. Anstruther, Esq. 



, [P.J. 



d. S (V. 171; C.P). Tare Plains, E. Dr. J. W Gregory 



Africa. [P.]. 



«. Yg. (V. 177 ; 0. 99). Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [0.]. 



(Type of -B. unguiculata.') 

 J-g- S (V. 178 ; 0. 108) Coast of Zanzibar. 



& ? (V. 167 ; 0. 103). 

 A. Yg. (V. 168 ; 0. 103). Coast of Zanzibar. F. Finn, Esq. [P.]. 

 i. Hgr. (V. 192 ; 0. 110). Mpwapwa, interiorof 



East Africa. 

 k. Hgr. (V. 170; C. 90). Fort Johnston, Brit. Sir H. H. Johnston, 



C. Africa. [P.]. 



I. SkuH. Mombasa. 



m. SkiiU. Kavironda, E. Africa. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



3. RhampMopliis togoensis. 



Psammophis acuta {non Ounth.), Matschk, Zool. Jahrb. v. 1890, 



p. 615. 

 togoensis, Matsehie, Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. vi. 1893, p. 212. 



Snout obtusely pointed. Eostral nearly as deep as broad, its 

 upper portion half as long as its distance from the frontal ; inter- 

 nasals broader than long, a little shorter than the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal twice as long as broad, longer than its distance from the 

 ■end of the snout, as long aa the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; 

 -two preeoculars, upper not reaching the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 or 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering 

 the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 

 which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows (19 on the 

 neck). Ventrals 171-182; anal divided; subcaudals 66-88. Olive- 

 brown above, with a darker vertebral line, and a black lateral stripe 

 extending to the end of the snout and passing through the eye ; 

 upper lip, sides below the black lateral stripe, and lower parts 

 white ; a black line along each side of the beUy. 



Total length 220 miUim. 



Togoland, West Africa. 



<i. Yg. (V. 182; C. ?) Togoland. Berlin Museum [E.]. 



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