TO TUK SXAKK FAUXA OF KOVrT. 



108?, 



(iii.) Obtained by Dr. Innes (sis were Nos. i. and ii.). Was in 



tlie Cairo 8cbool of Medicine Museum, now in tlio Gi/,a 



Zoologicnl Museum, 

 (iv.) Obtained alive (v. siq?.) November 12, 1908, lived in Giza 



Zoologicnl Gardens for eiglit months nineteen da3's, 



Male. Now in the British Museum, 

 (v.) Male. Collected by Mr. M. J. Nicoll, April 5, 1923, on 



desert, about 21 miles east of Cairo. Now in Giza 



Zoological Museum. 



12. Notes on 5th specimen of Wcdterinnesia cegyjjtia, 

 by S. 8. F., April 5, 1923. 



Male. Collected to-day by Mr. Nicoll. 



General impression : — A heavily built, short-tailed snake, with 

 a large flattisli head, a small black eye, and a conspicuously 

 large nostril. 



Colour : — Upper surfaces shiny black ; lower surfaces grey. 



Ventrals 190. Anals 2. Subcaudals 51 (actually 51 right, 

 50 left. First, at base, divided. Second to sixth entire. Seventh 

 divided. Eighth entire, llemaining forty-two divided, and one 

 extra half on right side). 



