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VIPERID^. 



17. Vipera lebetina, L. 



Bagdad (Lt.-Col. Wall) ; Aushurn (Lt.-Ool. H. D. Piele). 



Habitat: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyclades, Cyprus, and South 

 Western Asia from Syria and Asia Minor to Baluchistan, Afghanistan and 

 Kashmir. 



1 8 . Cerastes cornutus, L . 



Basra (Lt.-Ool. Wall); Shaiba(Lt. Livesey). 



All the specimens, six in number, lack the horn-like scale above the eye 

 whence the species derives its name and which is more frequently present 

 than absent in North African individuals. 



Habitat : Borders of the Sahara, Arabia and Palestine. Had not been 

 previously recorded from Mesopotamia. 



