376 Hon. W. Rothscliild on a new Antelope 



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Goldfields, Transvaal, where a young speciaisn was collected 

 by Dr. Percy Randall. Its discovery in Natal extends its 

 habitat further to the south. 



Two specimens are in the collection, belonging to the var. 

 mossamhica^ Peters : — An adult female, uniform brown, with 

 a broad black cross-bar under tlie neck, preceded and followed 

 by a narrow, imperfect one ; 27 scales round the neck, 23 

 round the body; ventrals 187; subcaudals 61. A young, 

 grey above, yellowish beneath, with several irregular black 

 bars under the neck ; 29 scales round the neck, 25 round the 

 body; ventrals 195; subcaudals 58. 



Dendrospis angusticeps, Smith. 



Four specimens : — 



1. (^ (2360 millim.). Scales in 21 rows; ventrals 253; 



subcaudals 117; 3 prre- and 3 postoculars ; fourth 

 labial entering the eye. Blackish brown above. 



2. (^ (1890 millim.). Scales in 19 rows; ventrals 209; 



subcaudals 107 ; 3 prai- and 4 postoculars ; fourth 

 labial entering the eye. Green above. 



3. (^ (1750 millim.). Scales in 20 rows; ventrals 205; 



subcaudals 100 ; 3 praj- and 4 postoculars ; fourth 

 labial entering the eye. Pale olive above. 



4. ? (1600 millim.). Scales in 19 rows; ventrals 209; 



subcaudals 99 ; 2 pr?e- and 4 postoculars ; third and 

 fourth labials entering the eye. Green above. 



XLIV. — Note on a new Antelope. 

 By the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Buhalis Neumanni, sp. n. 



Mr. A. H. Neumann, during his recent travels in some of 

 the most interesting parts of Africa, on the east shore of and 

 to the north-east of Lake Rudolph, met with a Hartebeest 

 which 1 cannot refer to any of the already known forms, and 

 which I wish to name after its discoverer. I have before me 

 two skulls with horns, of a male and of a female, and parts of 

 the skin of the body. 



The horns differ widely from those of Bubah'-i major 



(Blyth) , of West Africa, and B. huselaphvs (Pall.) , of Northern 



Africa and Arabia, in being slenderer and in their tips being 



inverted, instead of pointing outwards or straight behind. 



The nearest ally seems to be B. tora (Gray) of Upper Nubia, 



