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quistii, Donndorf. Tliere is no explicit statement whence these 

 species were obtained. The first-mentioned is certainly not found 

 in Arabia; while, on tlie other hand, all of them are present in 

 Egypt, and since Hasselquist'a day have been recorded from 

 Arabia with the exception of tlie Nile Monitor. 



EorskS.1 describes eight species of Snakes: — 1. Coluber lebe- 

 tinus ; 2. Coluber guttaUis, EorskSl ; 3. Coluber Itaje, Eorskal ; 

 4. Coluber dhara,^ oviikal; 5. Coluber sc1ioTcari,^ovs\%X; 6. Coluber 

 hcetan, Forskal ; 7. Coluber hblleik, ForskS-l; and 8. Coluber 



, Arab. Ilannasch asuced, or black snake. The first was 



received from Cyprus ; the second is assigned to Cairo, and is 

 probably the species afterwards described by Is. Geoffrey 

 St. Hilaire as C. jiorulentus=Zamenis florulentus; the third is 

 Naia Tiaje, but the place of its occurrence is not stated ; the 

 fourth is evidently a member of the genus Tarbopliis, and the 

 snake described as C. obtusus, Eeuss, is, I believe, identical 

 with it, seeing that the Hejaz specimen in no way differs 

 from the Egyptian snake described by Eeuss ; the fifth is un- 

 questionably the PsafHinopJiis redescribed in after years under 

 a variety of names, e. g., P. lacrymans, E,euss, P. punctatus, 

 D. & B., and P. sibilans, var. Jiierosolimifana, Jan, &c. The 

 descriptions of the three remaining species are too vague to 

 enable them to be determined. Only two of the eight species, 

 viz. Tarbopliis dliara and Psammopliis schokari, are ascribed to 

 Arabia, and to the Province Yemen. 



Besides these reptiles, Forskal mentions a number of others, 

 under their native names, chiefly, from Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, 

 but it would be vain to attempt to identify them. 



Olivier, iu the beginning of the century, referred a lizard from 

 North Arabia to A. ruderata. This specimen is preserved in 

 the Paris Museum \ 



Eiippell, about the middle of the second decade of this century, 

 began his exploration of North-Eastern Africa, and in the course 

 of his travels visited Arabia Petrsea, the Sinaitic Peninsula, and 

 the ports of Moilah and Jiddah. The results of his firstjouruey 

 were made known by Dr. C. IT. Gr. Heyden, in 1827. In this 

 work the following species of Eeptiles and Batrachia are described 

 from Arabia, viz.: — Uromastix ornafus, ITeyden ; Agama sinaita, 

 Hevden ; Af/ama stellio, II. &L. ; Ptyodaclylus guitatus, Ileyden, 

 =P. hasselquistii, Donndorf; Stenodactt/lus scaber, llejd.en,= 

 1 Cat. Rept. Paris Mus., Dumeril, 1851, p. 103. 



