171. PSAMMOPHIS. 165 



yellowish -white, with or without an interrupted blackish line on 

 each side of the ventrals. 



Total length 880 miUim. ; tail 250. 



South Africa. 



,«. (J (V. 158 ; C. 95). Port Natal. Mr. T. Ayres [C.]. 



10. PsammopHs longifrons. (Piaxb VIII. fig. 2.) 



Psammophis longifrons, Boideng. Faun. Ind., Sept, p. 366 (1890) ; 

 Hreckfnann, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii. 1892, p. 406 ; Oleadow, 

 op. cit. viii. 1894, p. 553. 



Snout nearly twice as long as the eye. Eostral as deep as broad, 

 "visible from above ; nostril between one anterior and two super- 

 posed posterior nasals ; internasals hardly half as long as the prse- 

 frontals, which are only a little shorter than the frontal; latter 

 shield very narrow, much narrower in the middle than the supra- 

 ocular, shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, a little 

 flhorter than the parietals ; loreal slightly more than twice as long 

 as deep ; one prseocular, not extending to the frontal ; two post- 

 -oculars ; temporals 2 + 3 ; eight upper labials, third deeper than 

 second and fourth, fourth and fifth entertug the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long 

 as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 173 ; anal divided ; 

 flubcaudals 93. Olive above ; head with symmetrical undulating 

 black lines ; scales on the vertebral line, or on the whole back, with 

 broad black margins ; uniform white beneath. 



Total length 1320 millim. ; tail 375. 



HiUs of South Western India. 



M. Ad. (head and neck only). Cuddapah Hills. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



(Type.) 



11. Psammophis condanarus. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pi. xxvii. (1796). 



Coluber condanarus, Merr. Tent. p. 107 (1820). 



Leptophis ? bellii, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 529. 



Psammophis condanarus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, 

 p. 293 ; Qiinth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 291 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 196, and xl. 1871, p. 438 ; Anders. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 182 ; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 

 p. 83; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 187 (1876) ; Murray, Zool 

 Sind, p. 382 (1884) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 365, fig. (1890). 



aibilans, var. E, GUnth. Cat. p. 137 (1858). 



indicus, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. 1863. 



Phayrea isabellina, Theob. Cat. Bept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 51. 



Psammophis sibilans, var. quadrilineata, Jan, Icon. Q6n. 34, pi. iii. 

 fig. 1 (1870). 



Snout nearly twice as long as the eye. Eostral as deep as broad, 

 ■visible from above ; nasal divided or semidivided ; internasals 

 lather more than half the length of the prsefrontals ; frontal twice 



