. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 9. Lateral and dorsal views of head, and dorsal scale of L copense vermiculatum. tion to the northern shore of Lake Nyasa, through eoastal northern Tanzania, Usam- bara and Uluguru Mountains. Nowhere do the loveridgei populations come near the known jocksoni locaHties, but even if the intervening space (between KiHman- jaro and the coast or between Lake Rukwa and Lake Nyasa) should be occupied by intermediary populations, the vastness of the jacksoni range hardly allows us to suppose that the race here describe
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 9. Lateral and dorsal views of head, and dorsal scale of L copense vermiculatum. tion to the northern shore of Lake Nyasa, through eoastal northern Tanzania, Usam- bara and Uluguru Mountains. Nowhere do the loveridgei populations come near the known jocksoni locaHties, but even if the intervening space (between KiHman- jaro and the coast or between Lake Rukwa and Lake Nyasa) should be occupied by intermediary populations, the vastness of the jacksoni range hardly allows us to suppose that the race here described might be part of a smooth cline going from the Lake Victoria and Lake Tan- ganyika region towards the coast. Un- fortunately, there is a very large blank in central Tanzania: we simply don't know what species of Lycophidion are living there. Lycophidion capense vermiculafum subsp. n. Lycophidion capense capense (non A. Smith) Bouert (part), 1940, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 77: 30, Mlanje (Malawi); Loveridge (part), 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 268, Mikindani, Mbanja, Nchingidi (Tanzania); Loveridge (part), 1951, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106: 188, Liwale (Tanzania); Loveridge (part), , Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lib: 258, Kotakota, Cholo Mountains (Malawi); Manacas, 1959, Mem. Junta Invest. Ultramar, 8: 139, Vila Paiva de Andrada (Mozambique). Holuiype: 16 (MCZ 48225), Mbanja, near Lindi, Tanzania, collected by A. Love- ridge Paiatypcs: 16, 19 (MCZ 48256-57), Mbanja, near Lindi, Tanzania, collected by A. Loveridge 26-; Diagnosis. Ventrals: 182-195 {$ $), 192-203 ( $ 9 ). Subcaudals: 4:3-52 \i i), 33-41 (99). Color pattern as in love- ridiici. Maximum size observed (in mm). 385 (tail 61) in males, 521 (tail 57) in females. Other specimens examined. Tanzania: Morogoro, 16, 19 (AMNH 16882, 16884); Mikindani, 16 (MCZ 48254); Nichingidi, Rondo Plateau, 36 6,19 (MCZ 48260-63); Ruponda, 19 (MCZ 52640); Liwale, 7 6 6, 39 9 (MCZ 50249, 52639; FMNH 81083, 8
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