624 ADDENDA AND COEKIGBNDA. 



separated from each other by two or three series of scales. Scales 

 smooth, in 19 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate laterally, 159 ; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 76. Pale greyish above, with four longi- 

 tudinal series of pale grey-brown spots, the two vertebral series 

 formed of larger spots which are partly confluent ; a blackish spot 

 below the eye; lower parts white. 



Total length 200 millim. ; tail 47. 



Ogaden, Somaliland. 



Page 402. Add a species : — 



19 a. Zamenis smitMi. 



Zamenis smithi, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 536, pi. xxx. 

 fig. 2. 



Snout obtuse, feebly projecting. Eostral once and a half as 

 broad as deep, the portion visible from above measuring one fourth 

 its distance from the frontal ; internasals as long as the prsefrontal ; 

 frontal broader than the supraocular, once and two fifths as long as 

 broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one prseocular, in 

 contact with the frontal, with one or two suboculars below it ; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2-)- 2; nine (exceptionally ten) upper 

 labials, fifth and sixth (or sixth and seventh) entering the eye ; 

 four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; 

 posterior chin-shields as long as or longer than the anterior and 

 separated from each other by two series of scales. Scales smooth, 

 in 21 rows. Ventrals very obtusely angulate laterally, 171-185 ; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 100. Uniform pale buff above, pinkish 

 on the sides ; a greyish blotch below the eye and another across 

 the temple ; white beneath. 



Total length 560 miUim. ; tail 170. 



"Western Somaliland and Gallaland. 



a. S (V. 171 ; C. 100). Webi ShebeH. Dr. Donaldson Smith [P.]. 



(One of the types.) 



b. d (V. 171 ; C. ?). W. of Juba R. Dr. Donaldson Smith [0.]. 



^^^ . Page 403. Zamenis florulentus. 



Tylantheia florulenta, Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. xviii. 1895, 

 p. 216. 



u. (J (V. 216; 0.?). Mandara, near Alex- Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 



andria. 

 V. 2 (V. 217 ; 0. 99). Beltim, Delta. Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 



^^^ . Page 404. Zamenis gracilis, 



? Coluber cinereus, Xinn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 37, pi. xxiii. fig. 2 

 (1754). 



