201. APAEAILACITJS. 261 



prseocular; one postocular; temporals 1 + 1 (the first sometimes 

 absent) J six upper labials, second and third entering the eye 

 fourth (or fourth and fifth) in contact with the parietal : symphysial 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are slightly larger 

 than the posterior and in contact with three lower labials. Scales 

 ^^}^-lT^- ^«''*'^«'1« 110-149; anal entire; subcaudals 21-40. 

 Keddish brown above, whitish beneath; upper surface of head and 

 nape black, the black on the nape edged with yellowish ; a pair of 

 yeUowish spots may be present behind the parietal shields ; sides of 

 head yellowish, the shields bordering the eye black. 



Total length 103 millim. ; tail 17. Grows to 255 millim. 



Mozambique, Nyassaland. 



a. Yg. (V. 149 ; 0. 40). Zomba, Brit. C. Africa. Sir H. H. Johnston 



[P.]. 

 9. Aparallactus punctatolineatus. 



Uriechis capensis, part., Socage, Herp. Angola, p. 129 (1895). 

 Aparallactus punctatolineatus, Boulenq. Ann. 4- Maq. N. H. ((S) xvi 

 1895, p. 173. ./•-"■ W ^vi. 



Similar to A. capensis, but six or seven upper labials, second and 

 third entering the eye, fifth or fourth and fifth in contact with the 

 parietal. Ventrals 160-161 ; subcaudals 36-41. Yellowish brown 

 above, each scale darker in the centre, with three longitudinal series of 

 large black dots ; upper surface of head and a nuchal cross-bar black. 



Total length 125 millim. ; tail 20. 



Angola and Nyassaland. 



u. Hgr. (V. 160 ; 0. 36). Chiradzulu, Brit. Sir H. H. Johnston [P.]. 



C. Africa. 



10. Aparallactus liueatus. 



Uriechis (Metopophis) lineatus, Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac. 1870, p. 643, 



pi. i. fig. 3. 

 Aparallactus hneatus, BouZeng. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (6) xvi. 1895, 



p. 173. 



Diameter of eye greater than its distance from the oral margin. 

 Eostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above one third 

 as long as its distance from the frontal; a single praefrontal, forming 

 a suture with the praeocular; frontal once and a half as long as 

 broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the prseocular ; 

 one postocular ; a single temporal ; seven upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye, fifth and sixth in contact with the parietal ; 

 first lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the symphysial ; 

 two pairs of subequal chin-shields, the anterior in contact with 

 three lower labials. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 168 ; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 41. Olive above, with three dark longitudinal lines ; 

 each scale of the outer series with a yellow spot ; ventrals and sub- 

 caudals closely speckled with dark grey. 



Total length 440 millim. ; tail 57. 



£eta, Guinea, 



