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dieser Sammlung fand sich ein Exemplar Labidura riparia pallipes Fabr. 

 mit der Etikette: »Woronesh, 21. V. 1903 (sine data nominis collec- 

 tons).« Das Geschlecht des Exemplars läßt sich nicht bestimmen, da 

 das Abdomen abgebrochen ist. Dieser neue Fundort liegt auf der Linie, 

 welche die beiden äußersten Fundorte dieser Form im europäischen 

 Rußland verbindet, das Astrachansche und Moskauer Gouvernement. 

 Daher ist es wohl statthaft, anzunehmen, daß die Art Labidura riparia 

 Pall. 16 sich als dem ganzen centralen europäischen Rußland, seinen 

 Schwarzerdegouvernements und seinen südöstlichen Teilen eigen erweist. 

 Moskau, Januar 1908. 



2. Description of two new species of Psammophis from South Africa. 



By Lewis Henry Gough Ph. D. Assistant in the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. 



eingeg. 9. Sept. 1907. 



Two new species of Psammophis were found when working out the 

 collection of snakes belonging to the Transvaal Museum. 



Psammopliis thomasi n. sp. Snout once and two thirds as long as 

 the eye. Rostral broader than deep. Internasals less than half as long 

 as the praefrontals, frontal more than twice as long as broad (9,6 mm 

 long, 4 mm broad in front, but only 2,6 mm in the middle), frontal 

 longer than its distance to the end of the snout , and narrower in the 

 middle than the supraocular (which measures 3,6 mm). 



Parietals shorter than the frontal (measuring 8,7 mm). Nostril 

 between 3 nasals, a large anterior and two small superimposed posterior. 

 Loreal twice and a half as long as broad, separated from the internasals. 

 One large praeocular, widely separated from the frontal. Suture between 

 praefrontal and supraocular 1,5 mm long. The praefrontal is in contact 

 with the loreal supraocular, and upper labials 3 and 4. Two postoculars. 



Temporals, 1 + 1 or 2 -j- 1 (in the type right side 1 + 1 left side 

 2-1-1). A large shield behind and outside each of the parietals. Eight 

 upper labials, 4th and 5th entering the eye, 6 th largest. Two pairs of 

 equal chinshields. A long suture between the first pair of lower labials 

 behind the chinshields (2,5 mm), four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chinshields. Scales, oblique, the outer rows much broader than 

 the inner ones, in 17 rows. 



Scales on the upper surface of the tail larger than the correspond- 

 ing ones of the body. Ventrals 167, Anal divided Subcaudals in 92 

 pairs. 



Length of type specimen 117 cm, of which 33,5 belong to the tail. 



16 Und einige (wenn nicht alle) dieselbe begleitenden Formen. 



