REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM LIBERIA 
Hapsidophrys lineata Fischer 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22518) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Grayia smithii (Leach) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22517) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
DASYPELTIDAE 
Dasypeltis scaber (Linné) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22519) Banga. 
DIPSADOMORPHIDAE 
Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia hotamboeia (Laurenti) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22520) Liberia. 
Boiga blandingii (Hallow) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22521) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Psammophis sibilans (Linné) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22522) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
Thelotornis kirtlandii (Hallow) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22523) Gbanga. 
Miodon acanthias (Reinhardt) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22524) Ghanga. 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22525) Nickabo. 
3 ex. (M.C.Z. 22526-8) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22529-30) Plantation No. 3, Du River. 
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Color in life: ‘‘ Above longitudinal black lines with Brazil red stripes between. 
Belly bitter-sweet orange.”’ 
ELAPIDAE 
Naja goldii Boulenger 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22531) Totokwelli. 
This cobra undoubtedly ejects its venom to a distance like Naja haje, N. nigri- 
collis, ete. The junior author has seen them doing so in the New York Zoologi- 
cal Park. 
Naja melanoleuca Hallowell 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22532) North of Moala. 
It is interesting to find that the Black-lipped Cobra is arboreal on the West 
Coast. In the savannah country near Lake Victoria it is associated with termite 
hills in which it dwells. 
‘We were sitting down to lunch in the forest when the porters saw something 
white move at the mouth of a hole some fifty feet up in one of the forest trees. 
