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the diflferent regions inhabited by this variable species may be 

 distinguished from one another. 



Ablepharus pannonicus Fitzinger. 



Two specimens from Wady Gharbeh, Sinai. These examples 

 seem to be exactly the same as others in the Museum, from Buda 

 Pesth, collected by Count Emil Kornis, and from Ofen, Hungary, 

 collected by Dr. Steindachner. 



SERPENTES. 



Leptotyphlops phillipsi sp. nov. 



Type, an adult specimen, no. 9650, M. C. Z., collected at Petra, Arabia, 

 by Dr. J. C. Phillips and Mr. W. M. Mann. 

 Paratypes from the same locality, M. C. Z., 

 nos. 9638-9649. 



Curiously enough no species of Lepto- 

 typhlops {Glauconia auct.) has, so far as I 

 am aware, hitherto appeared in any of the 

 collections made in Sinai or Palestine. The 

 occurrence of the genus was to have been 

 expected, and the affinities of the species are 

 Egyptian, in common with many others. 

 The present form needs comparison with 

 L. macrorhynchus (Jan) only, and differs in 

 several characters from the original figure of 

 this species. (Jan, Icon. Gen., liv. I, pi. 5 

 & 6, fig. 12). 



Snout very prominent, hooked, the pre- 



oral portion concave inferiorlj'; supraocular 



present, small; rostral not reaching the level 



of the eyes, (it does in macrorhynchus); 



nasal completely divided; ocular bordering 



lip between two labials, the first of which is 



very small. 14 scales around the body. , , , „ ^.„- ■ 



•' f ^1 1 J or, • i i 1 1 J.I Leptotyphlops philhpax sp. nov. 



Diameter of the body 86 m total length; 



length of tail 12.5 times. Colorless. 



Boulenger (Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 1, 1893, p. 62) states that in macrorhynchus 



