276 COLTTBKID^. 



F. Uniform reddish brown above and on the sides ; lateral ventral 

 dots ■well marked. 



0. (S (V. 125 ; C. 46). Port Elizabeth. J. M. Leslie, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Homalosoma sMranum. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Homalosoma Tutrix (wore i.), Oiinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 555. 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; suture between 

 the internasals thrice as long as that between the preefrontals ; 

 frontal once and two thirds as long as broad, longer than ita 

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

 nearly twice as broad as the supraocular; nostril in the anterior 

 half of the nasal; no loreal, nasal forming a suture with the prse- 

 ocular ; one prse- and one postocular ; temporals 1 + 2; six upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; two pairs of short chin- 

 shields in contact with each other, the anterior in contact with 

 three labials. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 142 ; anal entire ; sub- 

 caudals 33. Uniform olive-brown above ; beUy yellowish white in 

 the middle ; outer ends of ventrals and lower rows of scales grey. 



Total length 310 millim. ; tail 47. 



Nyassaland. 



a. 2 (V. 142 ; 0. 38). Shirg Highlands. H. H. Johnston, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Homalosoma abyssinicum. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 

 Homolosoma lutrix (non L.), Blanf. Zool. Abyss, p. 458 (1870). 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; suture between 

 the internasals hardly half as long as that between the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal scarcely longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, shorter than the parietals, a little broader than 

 the supraocular; nostril in the anterior half of the nasal- no 

 loreal, nasal forming a suture with the prseocular; one prae- and 

 one postocular ; temporals 1 -|- 2 ; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; two pairs of chin-shields in contact with each 

 other, the anterior in contact with three labials. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Ventrals 120 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 32. Olive-brown above, with 

 a fine, interrupted, black vertebral line ; sides black, dotted with 

 whitish ; belly greyish olive, spotted and freckled witi black on 

 the sides. 



Total length 235 millim. ; tail 43. 



Abyssinia. 



u. 3 (V. 120; 0. 32). Ashangi. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Homalosoma variegatum. 



Homalosoma variegatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 622, and 

 Peise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 107, pi. xvi. fig. 1 (1882) ; Botileng. Ann 

 ^ Mag. N. H. (6) ii. 1888, p. 140. 



