1879.] ON MAMMALS AND REPTILES FROM CYPRUS. 741 



6. Notice of a Collection of Mammals and Reptiles from 

 Cyprus. By Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S. 



[Eeeeived November 12, 1879.] 



Lord Lilford has recently received from one of his collectors a 

 small collection from the island of Cyprus, and has kindly submitted 

 the Mammals and Reptiles to me for examination. The species 

 are the following, those new to the fauna of Cyprus being marked 

 with an asterisk. 



1. Cynonycteris collaris. 



In the list of Cyprian animals compiled by Kotschy and published 

 in Unger and Kotschy's 'Die Insel Cypern,' Pteropus cegyptiacus 

 {Cynonycteris cegyptiaca) is enumerated as one of the two Bats 1 then 

 known from the island ; and, indeed, from the occurrence of this 

 species in Egypt and in Syria, the fruit-eating Bat of Cyprus might 

 have been expected to be that species. However, singularly enough, 

 the Cyprian specimens (of which thirty-eight are in the collection) 

 exhibit the distinctive character (a somewhat shorter thumb) on 

 account of which C. collaris has been separated from C. eegyptiaca 2 . 

 G. collaris has been found hitherto only in South Africa and on the 

 Gaboon ; and before we admit so singular a distribution of two repre- 

 sentative species we must feel disposed to question the specific value 

 of the character by which the two forms have been separated. 



*2. Vesperugo kuhlii. Two specimens. 



*3. Mus alexandrinus. Two specimens. 



*4. Acanthodactylus boskianus. One specimen. 



*5. Ophiops elegans. Eight specimens. 



6. Stellio cordylina. Numerous specimens. 



7. Chameleon vulgaris. One specimen. 



8. Zamenis atrovirens, var. carbonaria. Two specimens. 



9. Tropidonotus natrix. One specimen. 



10. Ccelopeltis lacertina. One specimen. 



11. (?VlPERA LEBETINA, L.) =VlPERA EUPHRATICA, Martin, = 



Vipera mauritanica, Dum. & Bibr. Two specimens 3 . 

 *12. Hyla arborea. Four specimens. 



13. Rana esculenta. One specimen. 



1 The second is Vespertilio murinus. 



2 Mr. Dobson, who has examined the specimens, agrees with us in considering 

 them to be C. collaris. 



The larger of these specimens had in its stomach the remains of a species of 

 Saxicola (?). This is a very rare instance of a yiperine snake swallowing a bird. 



