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(Boie), and the symmetrically-patterned yellow, vermilion, black 

 and white species of Oxyrhopus—formosus, doliatus, p>etolarius, 

 and trigeminus (Wagler). The Bead Snake {Simotes coccineus, 

 Latreille), which Audubon calls the Harlequin, and which is 

 common in North Carolina and other parts of America; 

 Leptodeira annulata (Shaw), from the Isthmus of Panama; 

 Leptodeira rufescens (Fitzinger), the absurdly-maligned " night- 

 adder " of the Cape of Good Hope ; and Carpliophis amcena 

 (Dum. and Bibr.), the Crimson-bellied Snake of Penns3 7 Tvania — 

 all exhibiting more or less gorgeous coloration, may not 

 improbably come in our way, and can be kept alive with little 

 trouble. There is another reptile which will get on very well in 

 a case of this description, either alone or with serpents; for, 

 though named the Glass Snake, it does not belong to the Ophidia 

 at all, being in reality a legless lizard like the slow-worm. It 

 ranks among the Zonuridce family, and is classified by Oppel 

 as Pseudopus pallasi. Found in Dalmatia and other parts of 

 Southern Europe, it can frequently be bought in this country, 

 and most collections of living animals are likely to have duplicates 

 for exchange. It is a singular and inoffensive creature, easily fed 

 on dead mice, slugs and snails, and owes its designation to the 

 extreme brittleness of its thick, ribbed body. One died recently 

 at the Zoological Gardens which had been kept there nearly 

 twenty years. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS ON BRITISH 

 STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 



By John T. Carrington, F.L.S., and Edward Lovett. 



(Continued from p. 72.) 



Galathea nexa, Emb. 



This species, as stated by Prof. Bell, partakes of some of the 

 characteristics of G. squamifera and G. strigosa, for it resembles 

 the former in the absence of spines in the hand, and the latter 

 in the comparative length of the external pedipalps. Its cephalo- 

 thorax is somewhat oval in shape, and broader than the abdo- 

 minal somites. The anterior pair of legs are very hairy, and 

 the remaining ones armed with sharp-pointed claws. Its colour 

 is brown. 



