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It differs from H. shir ahum in having two postoculars 
instead of only one, a trifling difference considering the great 
tendency of the postoculars of most species of snakes to vary 
in numbers. 
In coloration it agrees with H. shiranum fairly closely- 
Had the specimen been secured from the North of the 
Transvaal, there would have been little need of hesitation in 
recording it as Homalosoma shiranum Boulenger, it is only 
necessary because it appears to have been caught in Cape 
Colony. 
RACHIODONTINiE. 
Dasypeltis scabra (Linne). 
Egg -Eating Snake. Eier Vreter. 
(Scaled Snake in South Africa.) 
1, 2, 3, 4 
District. 
No history 
Date. 
Do nor. 
5 
Modderfontein 
1906 
Haagner 
6, 7, 8 
Shilowane, Zoutpans- 
berg District 
1901-5 
J unod 
9, 10 
Krabbefontein, Zout- 
pansberg District 
Breyer 
11, 12 
Modderfontein 
1906 
Haagner 
13, 14 
Irene 
1905 
Taylor 
15 
Cape Flats 
1902 
Taylor 
16 
Selati, Zoutpansberg 
District 
1897 
Flygare 
17 
Louw’s Creek 
1907 
Gough 
18 
19, 20, 21 
Vryheid, Natal 
No history 
1906 
Muller 
(var palmarum) 
22 
M’moouve 12 miles 
north of Serowe 
1903 
Schonland 
23 
Serowe 
1906 
Blackbeard 
24, 25 
Grahamstown 
1896 
Henshman 
26 
27, 28, 29 
30, 31, 32 
Grahamstown 
No record (C.C.) 
No record (O.R.C.) 
1905 
Jupp 
DIPSADOMORPHINiE. 
Tarbophis semiannulatus (Smith). 
Tiger Snake. Tijger Slang. 
p. 1 
Pretoria 
1906 
Gough 
2 
Barberton 
1906 
De Beer 
Q 
Barberton 
1897 
1, 5 
Shilowane, Zoutpans- 
berg District 
1904-5 
Junod 
6 
Pretoria 
1897 
Barrett 
