26 REPTILES. 



Brown, with angular cross-band, edged behind by a pale line ; 

 nose with a red cross-band, across the eyes ; chin and beneath paler. 



a — d. Stuffed. Adult. Cape of Good Hope. 



3. The West-African Puff Adder. Clotho lateristriga, Gray^ 

 Zool. Misc. 69. 



Gray-brown, black spotted, with black-edged, white, angular 

 bands across the back, and spots on the tail, with a broad, longitu- 

 dinal pale streak on each side the neck, bent up behind, and forming 

 the first band on the front of the back : head black-spotted, two 

 black spots on the crown and a black streak from the back angle of 

 each eye to the gape. 



a. Stuffed. Adult. Gambia. Purchased of Mr. Randall. 



4. The Berg Adder. Clotho Atropos, Gray, Zool. Misc. 69. 

 Col, Atropos, Linn. Mus. Adolph. Fred. 1, 22, t. 13, /. 1. Cobra 

 Atropos, Laur. Rept. 104. Vipera montana, A. Smith, Edinh. 

 Phil. Journ. i. 284. V. Atropos, Latr. Rept. iii. 334. Daud. 

 Rept. vi. 210. V. Echidna Atropos, Merrem, Tent. 152. A. Smith, 

 Illust. Zool. S. Africa, Rept. t. 52, adult. Echidna Atropos, Wagler, 

 Amph. 177. Berg Adder, Cape Colonists, var. ? Vipera Echidna 

 Atropoides, A. Smith, Illust. Zool. S. A. Rept. t. 53 Clotho? 

 Atropoides, Gray, Zool. Misc. 69. 



Olive-gray ; back with two series of dark square spots on each 

 side of the vertebral line ; sides darker marbled : the first, second 

 and third lower labial scales high, elongate ; the rest moderate, 

 mostly square. 



a. Inspirits. Half grown. South Africa? From Sir H. Sloane's 



collection. 

 /). In spirits. Half grown. South Africa. Presented by the 



Earl of Derby. 



c. In spirits. Young. S. Africa. 



d. In spirits. Adult. S. Africa. From Mr. Brandt's collection. 



5. The Plain Berg Adder. Clotho? inornata. Vipera inor- 

 nata, A. Smith, Edinh. Journ. i. 7. Echidna inornata, A. Smith, 

 Illust. Zool. S. Africa, Rept. t. 4. 



Yellowish brown ; beneath brownish yellow, sparingly sprinkled 

 with brownish dots ; tail olive, brown varied ; head oblong, cordi- 

 form ; eyebrows considerably elevated. 



Inhab. S. Africa. Snow Mountains or Sneebergen, /. Lieh, 

 Esq. In the collection of Dr. A. Smith. 



