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yard in length, was found to contain a full-grown rat ; but two juvenile 
examples which were kept for a night under a bell-jar along with a 
common mouse were devoured by the latter. In winter this snake may 
be found hibernating under stones or in the crevices of old wood. The 
eggs number from six to ten and vary somewhat in size in different 
clutches. 
Lycophidium capense (Smith); B.M. Cat., I., 339. 
Marandellas (O. A. Kidwell). 
SiMOCEPHALus CAPENSis (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., I., 345. 
Mochudi (W. A. H. Harbor). 
PsEUDASPis CANA (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., I., 382. 
Moseley, Fauresmith (E. Heath) ; Kyky (L. W.) ; Eooidam, Kimb. 
(G. A. H. Gain) ; Kimberley (Miss 0. Mclntyre, J. H. Power, J. Truter, 
E. and L. Windell) ; Victoria West (P. D. Morris) ; Somerset Strand 
(J. H. Power). 
Chlorophis natalensis (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., II., 94. 
Middelburg, Transvaal (Mrs. Currey). 
Chlorophis hoplogaster (Gunth.) (var.) ; B.M. Cat., IL, 93. 
Eldorado (0. A. Kidwell). 
A single specimen which seems to connect hoplogaster with er)iini of 
Central Africa. A single anterior and posterior temporal ; labials 4, 5, and 
6 entering the eye ; internasals about as long as prefrontals ; preocular just 
in contact with the frontal on one side, separated therefrom on the other ; 
103 subcaudals. 
Philothamnus semivariegatus Smith ; B.M. Cat., II., 99. 
Eldorado (0. A. Kidwell) ; Francistown (R. M. Daniel) ; Vaal Eiver 
Diggings (E. de Stadler) ; Barkly West (E. Mansfield, Y. Tournellec). 
Prosymna sundevalli (Smith); B.M. Cat., II., 247. 
Fort Eichmond, Herbert (W. H. Wayland). 
HoMALOSOMA LUTRix (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., II., 274. 
Durban (N. Parkins) ; Kalk Bay (J. H. Power). 
Dasypeltis scabra (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., II. , 354. 
Francistown (E. M. Daniel). 
