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extremities. Subcaudal scales 136 pairs. Skin of body, towards head, loose, forming- a fold on each 
side of the neck and anterior portion of the body. Ground colour of the upper surface of the head, the 
back, the sides, and the upper and lateral parts of the tail intermediate between lavender-purple and 
yellowish grey ; the head tinted with green. The top of the head is freely freckled with small liver- 
brown spots and narrow liver-brown lines ; the body, sides, and tail with short lines of the same colour, 
which form partial bands, or separate spots or stripes. Besides these variegations, the scales are 
speckled profusely with minute liver-brown dots. Lips, and under surface of lower jaw straw-yellow ; 
abdomen and under part of tail pale cream-yellow, shaded with pale yellowish brown, and freely 
freckled with small, liver-brown dots. Length from nose to base of tail, 23g inches; length of tail 13| 
inches; circumference, at thickest part of body, 1£ inch. 
Inhabits Kaffirland and the country towards Port Natal. 
DASYPELTIS SCABER, Wagler, Syst. der Amphib. page 178, 1830. Coluber scaber, Linn. Mus. 
Ad. Fr. i. page 36, tom. x. fig. 1. Tropidonotus scaber, Schleg. Physionomie des Serpens, 
page 328. Anodon typus, Smith , Zoological Journal, vol. iv. page 163, 1829. Eyervreter of the 
Cape Colonists. 
Inhabits the more southern parts of Africa, and consumes with avidity the eggs of birds. 
DIPSAS INORNATUS, n. s. 
Head rather large, subrhomboidal, and considerably broader than the neck; temples prominent; 
nose broad and rounded ; sides of head before eyes oblique. Body much compressed ; back sub- 
carinated ; abdomen rather full and arched. Tail short, tapered, and pointed, above convex, below 
flat. Nostrils lateral, situated between nasal and freno-nasal plates, the former is square, the latter 
narrow and semicircular. Rostral plate rather small and inferiorly arched ; naso-rostral plates rather 
smaller than the fronto-nasal plates; frontal plate five-sided, truncated anteriorly, pointed behind. 
Frenal plate square, the inferio-posterior angle prolonged ; preocular plate narrow ; postocular plates 
two, the uppermost the longest. Plates of upper jaw, exclusive of rostral, eight, of lower jaw; 
exclusive of mental plate, ten, the last two very small ; mental plate small ; the first pair of labial 
plates contiguous behind the mental ; submental plates four on each side, the first pair large and sub- 
rhomboidal, the other three pairs quadrangular and longest transversely ; the first abdominal plate in 
contact with the last pair. Scales of each side of the body arranged in oblique rows, slightly convex, 
the convexity forwards. The rows of one side are connected on the middle of the back with those of 
the other by the scales of the vertebral row, which are larger than those of the sides, rather differently 
shaped, and distinctly six-sided, the anterior and posterior sides short. The other scales are also six- 
sided, the anterio-inferior and the superio-posterior sides very short. The inner edge of each scale 
overlaps slightly the outer edge of the plate nearer to the vertebral line; abdominal plates subangular 
towards their extremities. Eyes rather large; pupils vertically ovate. Posterior maxillary teeth 
longest. The colour of the upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides, and the upper and 
lateral parts of the tail, intermediate between orange coloured brown and clove-brown ; the posterior 
portion of the upper lip, and the under part of the head, body, and tail, intermediate between straw 
and cream-yellow. Eyes blackish grey, with a metallic lustre. Abdominal plates, 148 ; subcaudal 
scales, 31 pairs ; the apex of the tail a scaly spine. Length from nose to base of tail, 19 inches ; ol 
tail, 2J inches. 
Inhabits the country (Kaffirland) to the eastward of the Cape Colony. 
