(ie REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
The other was brought into camp in a log of wood. On the latter being split open 
the snake, together with a lot of ants, fell out.” ‘One of the Gbanga snakes 
measuring two feet three inches was full of adult black ants and their larvae.” 
PYTHONIDAE 
Python sebae (Gmelin) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22497) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22498) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22499-500) Near Monrovia. 
“Natives say that the young pythons eat fish. One was found to have 
swallowed a roof rat.” 
Calabaria reinhardtii (Schlegel) 
1 (M.C.Z. 22501) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
This interesting burrowing python was first described from the Gold Coast 
and is now known to range throughout the rain forest. ‘‘When brought to us it 
remained tightly coiled in a knot.” 
COLUBRIDAE 
Natrix fuliginoides (Giinther) 
3 ex. (M.C.Z. 22502-4) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Natrix ferox Giinther 
5 ex. (M.C.Z. 22504-8) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Lycophidion fasciatum (Giinther) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22610) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Hormonotus modestus (Duméril and Bibron) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22510) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
Chlorophis irregularis (Leach) 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22511-2) Gbanga. 
Both agree with Boulenger’s latest definitions of heterolepidotus in that the 
praeoculars are widely separated from the frontal. The larger specimen has 
only 1 + 1 temporals, the smaller 1 + 2. The scale counts, viz. ventrals 160- 
171, subcaudals 107-112, make it necessary to refer these snakes to irregularis. 
Philothamnus nitidus (Giinther) 
4 ex. (M.C.Z. 22514) Gbanga. 
Gastropyxis smaragdina (Schlegel) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22513) Ghanga. 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22515-6) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
