186 



COIUBEIDiE. 



spots and cross-bands ; head green above, with or without some 

 patches of pinkish speckled with black and a pinkish black-dotted 

 streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; upper 

 lip cream-coloux, or pink, uniform or spotted with black ; one or 

 several black blotches on each side of the neck; greyish or pinkish 

 beneath, speckled or striated with brown. 



Total length 1180 millim. ; taU 400. 



Tropical and South Africa. 



A. Head uniform green above and on the sides; black blotches 

 usually forming cross-bands on the neck. {L. kirtlandii, 

 Hallow. ; 0. leeomtei, D. & B. ; 0. violacea, Fisch.) 



a. $ (V. 174 ; 0. 139). Sierra Leone. 



b. 5 (V. 161 ; C. ?). Adjah Bippo, Wassau, G. A. Higlett, Esq. 



c. c? (V. 168 ; 0. 160). 



d. d (V. 165 ; C. 139). 



e. 2 (V. ISl ; C. 146). 



/, g. (? (V. 170, 168; 



C. 167, 152). 

 h. 2 (V. 177 ; 0. 160). 

 i. 6 (V. 175 ; C. 170). 



k. $ (V. 165; 0.137). 



/. SkuU. 



Gold Coast. 

 Fantee. 

 Ashantee. 

 Oil Eiver. 



Gaboon. 



Eloby district, Gaboon. 

 Mouth of the Loango. 



Taveta, E. Africa. 



Cameroons. 



p.]. 



Sir H. H. Johnston 



[P.]. 



H. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 

 Mr. H. J. l>uggaii 



[0.]. 

 Keith Anstruther, 



Esq. [P.]. 



B. Head with black dots above and on the sides ; no cross-bands 

 on the neck. (T. capensis, Smith ; D. oatesii, Gthr.) 



a. Hgr., bad state. 



b. d (V- 159 ; 0. ?). 



c. Yg. (V. 155; 0.137). 



d. 2 (V. 165; 0.130). 



e. $ (V. 147 ; 0. ?). 



/, ff-k. <S (V. 161, 151, 

 156 ; 0. 136, 124, 117) 

 & 2 (V. 163, 152; 

 0. 118, 124). 



l-m. cJ (V. 163 ; 0. 146) 

 & hgr. (V. 148; 0.124). 



n. 2 (V. 161 ; 0. ?). 



Victoria Nyanza. Dr. Emin Pasha [0.]. 



Mpwapwa, E. Africa. 



Mandala, Brit. O.Africa. Scott Elliot,Esq.[P.]. 



L, Nyassa. 

 L. Nyassa. 



Zomba, Brit. 0. Africa. 



Milangi, Brit. 0. Africa. 

 Matabele-land. 



Universities Mission. 

 Miss M. Woodward 



[0.]; Miss. fS. 0. 



McLaughlin [P.]. 

 Sir H. H. Johnston 



[P.]. 



Sir H. H. Johnston 



[P.]. 

 0. G.Oates, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Type of I), oatesii^ 



177. DISPHOLirUS. 



Bucephalus (non Baer), Smith, Zool. Journ. iv. 1829, p. 441 ; Dmn. 

 ^ Bibr. Erp. Gin. vii. p. 875 (1854) ; Ounth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 143 

 (1858); Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 86 (1868); Peters, Reisen. 

 Mossamb. iii. p. 132 (1882). 



DisphoUdus, Duvemoy, Ann. Sc. Nat. xxvi. 1832, p. 150. 



Dendrophis, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 220 (1837). 



Maxillary short, widening behind, where it articulates with the 



