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BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
Sub-Order, Ophidia. 
NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES. 
Typhlops obtusus ; the Burrowing Snake.. 
i [Python sebce]; the common African 
Python. 
Uriechis capensis. 
Coronel/a olivacea, var. dumerilii. 
Homalosoma lutrix. 
Dasypeltis scabra. 
Psammophylax v'ariabilis (sp. nov.); the 
Rat Snake. 
Boodon linedtus. 
Leptodira rufescens. 
Lycophidium horstockii. 
AJicetulla irregularis. 
A Jmtulla neglect a. 
Dryiophis oatesii. 
Psammophis sibilans ) Hissing Sand 
Ditto, var. intermedia j Snakes. 
VENOMOUS SNAKES. 
Naja nigricollis; the Black-necked Cobra. 
\Naja flava ?] ; the South African Cobra : 
? the Spitting Cobra. 
\Dendraspis angusticeps ?]; the Tree- 
Cobra; the dreaded “ Mamba.” 
Causus rostratus. 
Causus rhombeatus; the Cape Viper. 
Bitis arietans; the Puff Adder. 
Bit is gabonica; the “River Jack” Viper 
of West Africa. 
Rana johnstoni (sp. nov.). 
Rana nyassce (sp. nov.). 
Rana fasciata. 
Breviceps mossambicus. 
Scolecomorphus kirkii. 
Class, AMPHIBIA. 
Order, Ecaudata. 
Cassina senegalensis. 
Bufo regularis. 
Arthroleptis viacrodactyla. 
Rappia cinctiventris. 
Rappia vasata. 
Class, PISCES. 
Sub-Class, Dipnoi. 
'[Protopterus annedens] ; the African Mud Fish. Reported from Lake Tanganyika, but 
not elsewhere in B.C.A. 
Sub-Class, Teleostomi. 
[Order, Actinopterygii.1 
Chromis squamipennis. 
Chromis subocidaris. 
Chromis mossambicus. 
Chromis johnstoni (sp. nov.). 
Chromis lethrinus (sp. nov.). 
Chromis rendalli (sp. nov.). 
Chromis tetrastigma (sp. nov.). 
Chromis callipterus (sp. nov.). 
Chromis kirkii (sp. nov.). 
Chromis williamsi (sp. nov.). 
Hemichromis modesties (sp. nov.). 
Hemichromis livingstonii (sp. nov.). 
Hemichromis robustus. 
Hemichromis dimidiatus. 
Hemichromis longiceps. 
Hemichromis afer (sp. nov.). 
Oreochromis shiranus (sp. nov.). 
Docimodus johnstoni (sp. nov.). 
Corematodus shiranus (sp. nov.). 
Bagrus meridionalis (sp. nov.); the great 
Cat Fish. 
[ Malapterurus , sp. inc. ]; the Electric Cat 
Fdsh. 
Labeo coubie. 
Bari/ius guentheri (sp. nov.). 
Engraulicypris pinguis; new genus. 
Haplochilus johnstoni (sp. nov.) 
[ Pristis , sp. inc.]; the Saw-fish. 
This creature comes up the River 
Shire from the sea as far as Chiromo. 
