Boaedon lineatus, the striped house snake, is a species of lamprophiid from all throughout Africa.

[1] This species is highly variable in appearance, their colour varying from deep black through light reddish brown and often greenish.

Stripes stretch from the rostral scale above the mouth through the eye to the rear of the head where they typically terminate.

As with all members in the genus Boaedon these snakes are highly iridescent, having an oil-on-water sheen in certain lights.

This species fares well in captivity, with some TLC they feed well on defrosted rodents & breed, laying 3–6 clutches of around 3–10 eggs per year.