354 



COLTJBEIDJS. 



pits, in 23 to 27 rows ; scales on three or four lateral rows oblique 

 and with more or less distinctly serrated keels ; ventrals rounded. 

 Tail moderate ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Pig. 25. 



1. Dasypeltis scahra. 



Coluber seaber, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 36, pi. x. fig. 1 (1754), and 



8. N. i. p. 384 (1766) ; Merr. Beitr. Nat. Amph. i. p. 34, pi. ix. 



(1790) ; Baud. Mept. vi. p. 263 (1808). 

 palmarum, Leach, Tucket/s Hxplor. R. Zaire, App. p. 408 



(1818). 

 Anodon typiis. Smith, Zool. Journ. iy. 1829, p. 443. 

 Eac.hiodon seaber, Jourdan, Le Temps, 18. 6. 1888 (?) ; Dum. ^ 



Bibr. vii. p. 491, pi. Ixxxi. iig. 3 (1854) ; Jan, Elenco, p. 106 



(1863), and Leon. O^n. 89, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1872). 

 Tropidonotus seaber, Schleg. Fhys. Serp. ii. p. 828, pi. xii. figs. 12 & 13 



(1837) ; JReinh. Vidensk. Selsk. Shift, x. 1843, p. 265, pi. i. fig. 24. 

 Dasypeltis inornatus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Mept. pi. Ixxiii. 



(1842). 



seaber. Smith, I. c. 



fasciatus, Smith, I. c. ; Peterst, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 644. 



Deirodon seaber, Owen, Odontogr. p. 220 (1846). 



Dipsas carinatus, Sallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. ii. 1845, p. 119, & 



1857, p. 69. 



