66. CHLOEOPHIS. 



with a white spot at the base, with or without a black upper border ; 

 interstitial skin black ; sometimes with black spots or irregular 

 cross bands on the anterior part of the body ; greenish yellow 

 inferiorly. 



Total length 820 millim. ; tail 240. 



Tropical Africa. 



a. <J (V. 173 ; C. 127). 



b. 2 (V. 182; 0.106). 



c-d. c? (V. 175 ; C. 125) 

 & 2 (V. 180 ; 0. 116). 



e-f. d (V. 165 ; 0. 133) 

 & ? (V. 162 ; C. 111). 



ff. c? (V. 166; 0.122). 



h-i, k-l. c? (V. 168 ; 0. 

 130) & 5 (V. 168, 172, 

 171; 0.111,108,103). 



m-n. 2 (V. 171 ; 0. 122) 

 & head. 



0. 5 (V. 176; 0.119). 



p. $ (V. 157 ; 0. 94). 



g. 2 (V. 154; 0.?). 



)•. 2 (V. 158; 0.103). 



s-t. 2 (V. 162, 163 ; 0. 



105, 103). 

 u. Hgr. c? (V. 157; 0. 



114). 



v-w. 2 (V. 154, 162 ; C. 



98, 108). 

 X. cJ (V. 170; 0. 114). 



Gambia. 

 McOarthie Id. 



Bisaao. 



Sierra Leone. 



Sierra Leone. 

 Sierra Leone. 



Ashantee. 



Guinea ? 

 Gaboon. 

 Angola. 

 Caconda, Angola, 



J. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 



Officers of the Ohat- 



ham Museum [P.]. 



V. H. Cornish, Esq. 



[C-]. . 

 Sir A. Kennedy [P.]. 



H. 0. Hart, Esq. [P.]. 



T. E. Bowdich, Esq. 



[P.]. (Types.) 

 Leyden Museum. 



Lieut. Oameron [P.]. 

 Prof. B. du Bocage 

 [P.]. 

 Zambesi Expedition. Sir J. Kirk [0.]. 



Blantyre Mission Sta- H. A. Simons, Esq. 

 tion. [0.]. (Type of A. 



shirana.) 

 Shirg Valley. 



Ugogo, E. Africa. Oapt. Speke [P.]. 



9. ChloropMs heterodermus. 



Chlorophis heterodermus. Sallow. Proc. An. Philad. 1857, p. 54. 

 AhaetuUa heteroderma, Ounth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. S. (3) xi. 1863, 



p. 285. 

 Herpeteethiops bellii, Giintk Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, 



p. 27, pi. vii. fig. B. 

 Philothamnus heterodermus, Buchh. ^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1875, 



p. 199 ; Bocage, Jam. 8c. lAeb. ix. 1882, p. 18 ; Boettg. Ber. Senck. 



Ges. 1888, p. 59. 



Eostral broader than deep, the portion visible from above mea- 

 suring hardly one fourth its distance from the frontal ; internasals 

 as long as or a little shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal with 

 slightly concave lateral borders, as long as or a little longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal 

 once and a half to twice as long as deep ; one prseocular, usually 

 not in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 ; 

 nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering- the eye ; five 

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

 long as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals with moderately 



vox. II. H 



