114 



Dastpeltis scabra, Lit>n. 



Gasco, Viaggio in Egitto, (pt. ii.) 1876, p. 119. 



The late Prof. Grasco was the first to record the occurrence 

 of the Egg-eating Snake in Middle Egypt, where he obtained 

 8 specimens. Count Peracca has been so good as to ascertain 

 from Prof. Costa that two specimens brought back from Egypt 

 by Prof. P. Panceri, the companion of Gasco, one a skeleton and 

 the other in alcohol, are preserved in the Naples Museum. 



Tarbophis SATiaNTi, Blgr. 



Cat. Snakes B. M. iii. 1896, p. 48.' 



Couleuvre, Descr. de I'^gypte, Suppl. Eept. pi. iv. figs. 2. i to 

 2. 8. 



The remarks I have made regarding Z. dalilii, Fitz., apply 

 equally to this species. 



VlPERID^. 

 ViPERA AMMODTTES, Liun. 



Linn. Amcen. Acad. i. 1749, p. 506, tab. xvii. fig. 11. 



Libya. 



This species was recorded by Linnaeus from Libya, on the 

 authority of Jonston (Hist. Quadr. et Serp., Lib. ii. 1657, p. 11, 

 tab. i. fig. ammodites), who quoted Soliuus as the source of his 

 information. 



ViPERA LEBETiNA, Linn. 



Strauch, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (vii.) xiv. no. 6, 1869, p. 84. 



Egypt. Berlin Museum, 



BATRACHIA. 



ECAUDATA. 



Htlidje. 

 IItla arborea, Linn. 



Ilyla savignyi, Audouin, Descr. de I'Egypte, p. 183, Suppl. 

 Eept. pi. ii. ligs. 13. i & 13. 2, 



I have made a most careful search for this species in Lower 

 Egypt, but have never succcded in finding it. It is an analogous 

 case to Z. dalilii and T. savit/nt/i. 



* I am enabled to make this identification as Mr. Boulenger Las favoured 

 me with a eight of the proofs of the third volume of his ' Catalogue of Snakes.' 



