liv INTRODUCTION. 
Coulouvre, Suppl. pi. iv. fig. 2 (1813). = Tarbophis savignyi, Blgr. 
„ Suppl. pi. v. fig. 1 (1812). = „ obtusus (Reuss). 
Coluber insignitus, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. = Caelopeltis monspessulana (Hermann). 
., „ pi. vii. fig. 6. = „ moilensis (Reuss). 
„ cucullatus, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. = Macroprotodon cucullatus (Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil.). 
Vi.pe.re Haje,part., pi. vii. fig. 3. = Naja nigricollis, Reinh. 
Scythale pyramidum, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. = Echis carinatus (Schn.). 
Rana esculenta (uon Linn.), Aud. = Rana mascareniensis, Dum. & Bibr. 
Hyla savignyi, Aud. = Hyla arborea, var. savignyi, Blgr. 
About 1829, Alexandre Lefebvre 1 , a zealous entomologist, one of the many Europeans 
who entered the service of Mohammed Ali, discovered the larva of a Triton in the 
oasis of Baharieh. 
In 1834, Reuss 2 described many of the reptiles that had been collected by Riippell, 
and gave names to other species figured in the ' Description de l'Egypte.' 
Riippell 3 , between 1835 and 1840, recorded Testudo sulcata=T. calcarata from 
Dongola, Sennaar, and Kordofan. 
In 1836, Dumeril and Bibron 4 mentioned that the Paris Museum possessed specimens 
of Gymnodactylus scaber, Heyden, from Egypt, collected by Riippell. 
In the following year, the same authors 5 recorded the presence in Egypt of Uromastix 
ornatus, Heyden, the specimens having been obtained by M. Botta, a travelling natu- 
ralist in the employment of the Paris Museum 6 . The type of this species is erroneously 
stated by Dumeril and Bibron to have been found in North Africa, whereas Heyden 
was most explicit in mentioning that it was collected by Riippell at Mohila, on the 
Arabian coast of the Red Sea. 
J. E. Gray 7 , in 1842, described as new a number of Egyptian reptiles presented to 
the British Museum ; but all of them were referable to species already known. 
The only species of Glauconia as yet known to exist between the Mediterranean and 
^Yadi Haifa was described by Dumeril and Bibron, in 1844 s , from a specimen found 
at Cairo, preserved in the Strassburg Museum, and named by them Stenostoma cairi. 
In the same volume, they also pointed out the presence of Python sebcp. (Gmel.) in the 
region of the White Nile, where it was obtained by M. dArnaud 9 . 
1 Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. (2) 1836, p. 312. Lefebvre died at Sennaar in the commencement of 18-10. 
* Mus. Senck. i. 1834. 3 Neue Wirbelth. von Abyss. 1835-40. 
4 Erpet. Gen. iii. 1836. s Op. cit. iv. 1837. 
6 It is quite possible that Dumeril and Bibron may have used the term Egypt in a loose sense, and may 
have included the Sinaitic Peninsula, as it formed in their day a part of political Egypt. 
7 Zool. Misc., March 1842. " Erpet. Gen. vi. 1844. 
9 M. d'Arnaud, in 1838, was sent by Mohammed Ali to analyse the auriferous lands at Fazakol, and, 
in 1840, he went as a member of a scientific expedition to the Blue Nile, under the leadership of M. Selim, 
a Turkish officer of Marine. He made extensive collections of natural history objects, but on his return 
journey they were all lost at the Fourth Cataract, with the exception of that portion of them that had been 
forwarded by land. (Bull. Soc. Geogr.) 
