South African Lacertilia, Ojphidia, and BatracJiia. 
165 
other snakes, and seems to have a special liking for frogs, including even 
the plathanda (Xenopits Icevis). 
Naia nigricollis Reinh. ; B.M. Cat., III., 378. 
Eldorado (0. A. Kidwell). 
AspiDELAPs scuTATus (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., III., 391. 
Rooipoort, Kimb. (A. Pringle). 
Elapechis sundevalli (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., III., 360. 
Kimberley (J. H. Power) ; Kimberley Mine, Kimb. (Donor ?). 
The latter specimen is entirely black above and pale below, with no 
indication of banding ; it is also abnormal in that the internasals are 
rather widely separated by the rostral. It has 165 ventrals. 
Elapechis guentheri Boc. ; B.M. Cat., III., 359. 
Eldorado (O. A. Kidwell). 
The specimen is juvenile, so that we are not absolutely certain of its 
specific identity. 
HoMORELAPS LACTEUS (Linn.); B.M. Cat., III., 409. 
Kamfersdam Mine, Kimb. (J. H, Power) ; Port Elizabeth (J. B. 
Harrison). 
The Kimberley record probably represents an accidentally introduced 
specimen. 
Family VIPEEID^. 
Causus rhombeatus (Licht.) ; B.M. Cat., III., 467. 
Marandellas (0. A. Kidwell). 
BiTis arietans (Merrem.) ; B.M. Cat., III., 493. 
Marandellas (0. A. Kidwell) ; Kyky and Nosob (L. W.) ; Kimberley 
(M. Mclntyre, J. Orr, H. A. Bemiester) ; Magersfontein, Kimb. (J. H. 
Power). 
BiTis CAUDALis (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., III., 498. 
Kyky (L. W.) ; Springbok Vlei (G. Lennox) ; Thornhill, Herbert (T. J. 
Cook). 
Usually there are only 2 lower labials in contact with the enlarged 
chin shield, but in several examples there were 3. 
