276 Mr. G. -A. Boulengcr on Reptiles and Batrachians 



Epyn's montezuma^ sp. n. 



Niger, antennis pedibusque testaceis ; alis hyalinis, stigmate 



ueiTisque pallidis. $ . 

 Long, fere 4 millim. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba [F. D. Godman and 11. H. Smith}. 



Allied to E. guatemalensis, Cam., but easily separated t'rora 

 it by the absence of the furrows on the mesonotum and by 

 the deep transverse depression at the base of the scutellum. 



Antennae stout, as long as the thorax, testaceous, infuscated 

 towards the tip ; the scape curved, dilated towards the apex, 

 as long as the following tliree joints united, these being of 

 nearly equal length. Head shining, faintly punctured, 

 sparsely haired ; the mandibles testaceous. The extreme base 

 of the pronotuni depressed, testaceous ; the rest aciculated and 

 with a few shallow punctures. The mesonotum much shorter 

 than the pronotum, aciculated; in front of the scutellum is a 

 •wide, deep, somewhat curved furrow. The median segment 

 is longer than the mesothorax ; above finely and closely 

 rugosely punctured, almost transversely striated towards the 

 apex ; there is a central keel reaching towards the apex and a 

 shorter lateral one ; the apex is almost perpendicular and 

 finely transversely striated. The abdomen is shining, pilose 

 at the apex, the apical segments rufous ; the basal segment is 

 gradually dilated towards the apex. Legs testaceous, the 

 femora more or less infuscated. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 pallid yellow ; the cubital and transverse cubital nervures 

 obliterated entirely ; the tegulaj are pallid yellow. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVI. — A List of Reptiles and Batrachians from the Conifo 

 Free State^ with Descriptions of Two new Snakes. By 

 G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



At the request of the Secretary of the Department of the 

 Interior, Congo Free State, I have undertaken to name a 

 collection of Reptiles and Batrachians formed in the State 

 within the last few years, and which will be exhibited at the 

 International Exhiliition to be held this year in Brussels. 

 At the same time 1 accepted to look over the specimens from 

 the same region which are the property of the Brussels 

 University, where they are being arranged by the Curator of 

 the Collection, my friend M. L. De Pauw. 



