Fepruary 7, 1914 Vou. IV, Pr. 95-98 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOGLOGICAL CLUB 
SOME NEW REPTILES. 
BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 
During the last few years it has been the good fortune of the 
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy to acquire several remarkable 
collections from southern Kamerun, especially rich in rare and 
interesting forms of reptiles and amphibians. The material was 
gathered by the Rev. George Schwab, a former missionary in this 
region. Among the snakes, one appears undescribed and is now 
characterized. 
The nearest ally of this new species, Crotaphopeltis hotambwia 
(Laurenti), usually has been included in the Neotropical genus 
Leptodeira; but, so far as I am aware, all the American species have 
the anal shield divided, while the African form mentioned above 
has it entire, as is also the case with this new species and with C. 
degent (Boulenger) from Uganda. Taking this fact into considera- 
tion, with the radically different type of coloration, I feel sure that 
the African snakes are not congeneric with those in America. The 
new form may be called 
Crotaphopeltis elongata sp. nov. 
Type, an adult, no. 9260 Mus. Comp. Zodlogy, from Lolodorf, southern 
Kamerun, collected by the Rev. George Schwab in 1912. 
This species differs from C. hotambeia in having a smaller head, a larger 
eye, a larger number of both ventral and subcaudal scales and different 
coloration. 
