56 THE SNAKES OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
Yellowish pale brown, or orange above marked with regular 
chevron-shaped dark-brown or black bars pointing backwards 
or black with yellow or orange markings ; a large dark blotch 
covering the crown, separated from a smaller interorbital 
blotch by a transverse yellow line ; an oblique dark band 
below and another behind the eye ; yellowish-white beneath, 
uniform or with small dark spots. Found at Kilimanjaro, 
Nairobi, and Guaso Nyiro. 
Genus Atradaspis — 
Hildebrandtii . — Total length 1 foot 5f inches. Tail 2 inches. 
Uniform dark brown. Found at Mombasa. 
Atradaspis Microlepidota . — Total length 21 J inches. Tail 
If inches. Snout very short, prominent, subcuneiform. 
Atkactaspis microlepidota. 
From Report of Wellcome Lab., Khartum, Vol. HI. 
Portion of rostral visible from above nearly as long as its 
distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals as 
long as that between the praefrontals ; frontal a little longer 
than broad, much longer than its distance from the end of the 
snout, longer than the parietals. Scales in twenty-nine to 
thirty-seven rows. Uniform dark brown. Found in East Africa. 
