Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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edges, on the outmost row the black edging is reduced to 
small spots on the ventral side, or even quite absent. The 
under side of the body finely speckled with black. 
Head brown with a reddish tinge, pink behind the angle 
of the jaws. Parietals and postparietals with black spots. 
Upper lip yellow, the upper half of each scale being brown 
like the rest of the head, the two colours separated by a 
broken dark line, the lower half with large, dark-edged 
brown marks. A faint yellow dark-edged line on the canthus 
rostralis. Under-lip and chin, and the first few ventrals 
yellowish with more or less rounded grey markings. 
P. 1 Salisbury, Rhodesia 1907 Thomas "(type) 
PSAMMOPHIS TRANSVAALIENSIS. Gough. 
Snout once and two-thirds as long as the eye. Rostral 
much broader than deep, visible from above. Nostril between 
two shields ; internasals two-thirds as long as the prae- 
frontals. Frontal more than twice as long as broad, in the 
middle two-thirds the width of the supraocular, much longer 
than its distance to the end of the snout, somewhat longer 
than the parietals : loreal about twice as long as deep ; two 
praeoculars, the upper widely separated from the frontal ; two 
postoculars; temporals 2 + 2; eight upper labials, third, 
fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four lower labials in con- 
tact with the anterior cliin-shields, which are shorter, but 
broader than the postocular. 
