1080 MAJOR S, S. FLOWER ON ADDITIONS 



This individual appears to me referable to the Typhlops vernii- 

 cularis of Mr. Boulenger's British Museum Catalogue of Snakes, 

 and so extends the range of that well-known species. 



2nd. On the 15th of April, 11)23, Prof. Hindle sent me a live 

 snake which he had purchased in Oairo from an Arab vendor of 

 reptiles. The Arab said the snake came from Daraietta. Tliis 

 may or may not have been so. As Damietta is a seaport its 

 trade with other parts of the Mediterranean and the local habit 

 of careening sailing craft on the shore make it possible for a 

 snake found there to have been brought, by accident, with cargo 

 or ballast from almost anywhere. Seaports are not "good 

 localities " for recording reptiles from. 



As far as I could examine this live individual it was also a 

 specimen of Typhlops vermicularls, but it was of most unusual 

 size for that species, being about 383 mm. in total length. The 

 diameter of body was 7 mm. (t. e., goes about 53 times in total 

 length). 



4. LycopMdium. 



In "A List of the Snakes of North-East Africa" by Mr. 

 Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1915, p. 64G, two species of Lycojihidtum are 

 mentioned : — 



Lycophidium capense from "Tropical and South Africa." 

 Liicophidium ahyssinicus from " Abyssinia." 

 In " A List of the Snakes of North Africa " by the same 

 authoi", P. Z. S, 1919, the genus Lycophidium is not mentioned. 



5. Lycophidium ahyssinicus Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Snakes, 

 i. p. 342, appears to be known only from the type-specimen in 

 the British Museum, and to difter from Z. capense only in having 

 the rostral shield narrowed, almost pointed, behind. On ex- 

 amining the type in London, July 17, 1923, it appears to be 

 inseparable from L. capense. Two females of L. capense irom 

 the Blue Nile have their rostral shields pointed. 



6. Lycophidium capense. 



When Mr. Boulenger wrote the Catalogue of Snakes there 

 were no specimens of L. capense from North-East Africa in the 

 British Museum, and so the single individual Lycophidium from 

 Abyssinia was separated by a very wide tract of country from 

 the known range of L. capense. 



In July 1923 in the British Museum there were four specimens 

 from North-East Africa entered in the catalogue in manuscript 

 by Mr. Boulenger, under : — 



Lycophidium capense, var. B. 

 Female. V. 188. C. 31. Roseires, Blue Nile. S. S. Flower. 1909. 

 Female. V. 191. C. 40. Deesa, „ 



Male. V. 168. C. 35. Onaramalka, Abyssinia. G. A. P. Abercromby. 1910. 

 Female. V. 180. C. 33. ., 



These four specimens have all subcaudal shields paired. 



