l-k Mr. G. A. Bouleiiser on Two new 



Amussium andamanicum, Smith. 



Amussium andamamcum, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1894, vol. xiv. 

 p. 172, pi. V. figs. 13, 14 ; op. cit. 1895, vol. xvi. p. 265. 



Hab. Laccadive Sea, 865-880 fath. 



Lima indica, Smith. 



Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist 

 tigator,' pi. xiii. figs. 4, 4 < 



Ilab. Station 232, off Travancore coast, in 430 fath. 



Lima indica, Smith, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1899, vol. iv. p. 251 

 Illust. Zool. ' Investigator,' pi. xiii. figs. 4, 4 a. 



II. — Descriptions of Ttoo neto Elap'ine Snahes from 

 the Congo. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



A SMALL series of reptiles brought liome from the Congo 

 by Dis. Dutton, Christ}^, and Todd, of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine Expedition, contains examples of two 

 poisonous snakes which are new to science and of which I 

 have great pleasure in giving descriptions. The specimens, 

 which have been presented to the British Museum, were 

 obtained near Leo[ioldville. 



Boulengerina Christyi. 



Rostral once and a half as broad as deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals as long as the praifrontals, extensively in 

 contact with the prseocular ; frontal small, not longer than 

 broad, broadest behind, forming very open angles in front 

 and behind, not quite as long as its distance from the rostral, 

 half as long as the parietaLs ; supraocular much narrower 

 than the frontal ; posterior nasal in contact with the single 

 pra30cular ; two or three postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 

 2 + 3; seven upper labials, third and fourth entering tlic 

 eye, fourth and tifth in contact with the lower postocular ; 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; 

 posterior chin-shields narrower and a little shorter than the 

 anterior and separated by one scale. Scales in 19 rows on 

 the neck, 17 on the body. Ventrals 221; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 70. Blackish brown above, the nape and the anterior 

 third of the body with irregular pale brown and black cross- 

 bars, the black forming rings on the neck ; upper lip pale 

 brown, with black lines on the sutures between the shiehis; 



