200. MACRELAPS. 201. APAEALIACTTTS. 255 



series of small scales. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 104-115 ; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 11-13. Greyish white above, with. 

 irregular brown cross-bands, or dark brown wibh irregular white 

 cross-bands ; ventrals broadly edged with brown in front. 



Total length 255 millim. ; tail 15. 



Somaliland. 



a. ? (V. 115; 0. 11). Somaliland. Paris Museum [E.]. 



(Oue of the types.) 



200. MACRELAPS. 



Maxillary short, with 4 moderately large teeth followed by a 

 very large grooved fang situated below the eye ; anterior man- 

 dibular teeth enlarged, third to fifth longest. Head small, not 

 distinct from neck ; eye minute, with round pupil ; nasal divided ; 

 no loreal ; no praeocular ; prsefrontal entering the eye. Body 

 cylindrical ; scales smooth, without pits, in 25 or 27 rows ; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail short ; subcaudals single. 



South Africa. 



1. Macrelaps microlepidotus. 



Uriechis microlepidotus, Gunth. Ann. 8r Mag. N. S. (3) v. 1860, 

 p. 168, pi. ix. ; Gurnet/, t. c. p. 343. 



Kostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above nearly 

 half as long as its distance from the frontal ; intemasals shorter 

 than the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals; 

 postocular small, single, in one specimen (young) in contact with 

 the first temporal ; temporals l-|-2; seven upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye, fifth largest ; three or four lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer 

 than the posterior. Scales in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 163-166 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 37-48. Uniform black. 



Total length 850 millim. ; tail 105. 



Natal. 



a, b. 5 (Sc. 25; V. 166 ; 0. 37) Durban. Mr. T. Ayrea [C.]; J. H. 

 & yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 163 ; C. 48). Gumey, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types.) 



201. APARAILACTUS. 



AparaUactus, Smith, III. Zool. 8. Aft:, Bept, App. p. 15 (1849). 

 Elapomorphus (non Wiegm.), Smith, I. c. p. 16. , , „ 



Uriechis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 623; Jan, Arch. Zool. 

 Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 48 ; Peters, Seise n. Mossamb. ui. p. 110 



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Cercocaiamus, Gunth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 21, and 

 Biol. C.-Am., Bept. p. 167 (1895). 



Maxillary short, with 6 to 9 small teeth followed by a large 

 grooved fang situated below the eye; anterior mandibular teeth 



