618 



ADDBWDA AND COREISENDA. 



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

 considerably larger than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, all 

 strongly keeled. Olive-grey above, yellowish beneath. 

 Island Manda, N. of Lamu, E. Africa. 



3 b. Simocephalus crossii. 



Simocephalua crossii, BouUng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) xvi. 1895, 

 p. 33. 



Eye moderately large. Eostral much broader than deep, just 

 visible from above ; internasals broader than long, two thirds the 

 length of the praefrontals ; frontal as long as broad, as long as its 

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

 loreal deeper than long ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 2+3; seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four 

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

 short, like the posterior. Scales strongly keeled, in 17 rows. 

 Ventrals 234 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 53. Blackish above and on 

 the outer end of the ventrals, yellowish white beneath. 



Total length 410 millim. ; tail 50. 



Niger. 



j^^^ . Page 357. Lycodon albofuscus. 



c. Hgr. (V. 234 ; C. 177). Eejang E., Sarawak. Eajah Brooke [P.]. 



^^^ . Page 358. Lycodon fasciatus. 



c. Hgr. $ (V. 201 ; 0. Shillong, Assam. H. M. Phipson, Esq. 



74). [P.]. 



^^^. Page 360. Lycodon subcinctus. 



m. 5 (V. 207; C.65). Muching, Sarawak. Eajah Brooke [P.]. 



M. Yg. (V. 205; C. 67). Sandakan, N. Borneo. Douglas Cator, Esq. 



[P.]. 



