ZOOLOGICAL LITERATUEE. Ivii 
A few well-known species of Reptiles, and one Batrachian, were collected, in 1874, 
by Rohlfs and Acherson on their Expedition to the Libyan desert, and were enumerated 
by Peters l in the same year. 
Gasco, in the account of his journey to Egypt in company of his friend Panceri 2 , 
gave a list of the Reptiles they collected, amounting in all to 48 species. He recorded 
the presence of Gymnodactylus flavipunctatus (Ruppell)=Pn'sfa«rws fiavipunctatus, 
Ruppell, in the Sudan, and added Dasypeltis scabra (Linn.) to the fauna of Egypt 
proper. He mentioned that he had obtained Tropidosaurus algira, Fitz.,= Psammo- 
dromus algirus (Linn.), in the neighbourhood of Alexandria, and also Seps chalcides, 
~Bona,])., = Chalcides tridactylus, Laur., in the vicinity of the same city. The presence, 
however, of these two species in the littoral of Egypt has yet to be verified by a 
competent herpetologist. 
C. B. Klunzinger 3 , in 1878, published a list of a few reptiles from Kosseir collected 
during his residence at that town, where he found that widely-distributed gecko 
Hemidactylus flaviviridis, Hey den . 
The presence of a Salamander in the neighbourhood of Alexandria was pointed out 
in 1882, by Mr. G. A. Boulenger 4 on the authority of M. Lataste, who received some 
larvas from the collection of the late M. Letourneux, said to have been obtained 
in the foregoing locality. 
The late Dr. F. Miiller 5 , of Basel, recorded, iu 1882, the presence of Rana esculenta, 
Linn., in Egypt. 
The small snake Oligodon melanocephalus (Jan), found in Syria and in the Sinaitic 
Peninsula, was received, in 1885, from Cairo by Dr. F. Miiller of Basel 6 . 
1 Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 1874, p. 66. As so little is known of the Libyan desert, and as the 
species collecttd by Rohlfs and Acherson serve to throw some light on the character of its fauna, they are 
here enumerated, with the localities in which they were found, and to them I have added C'eelopeltis monspes- 
sulana (Hermann), incidentally mentioned by Rohlfs in his work entitled ' Drei Monate in der libyschen 
Wiiste,' p. 169 :— 
Stenodactylus gultatus, Cuv. Desert, Marak. — Stenodactylus elegans (Eitz.). 
Agama sinaita, Heyden. Ain-Amur, Ehargeh. = '? Agama sinaita, Heyden. 
Acanthodactylus savignyi, D. & B. Desert between ) ,,.,... 
„ „ . -,-.,,,, t =? AatiitJiodttritdus partialis (Licht.). 
Farafreh and Dakhel. J J r v ' 
Acaniliodactylus boskianus (Daud.). Ditto. 
Monitor (Psammosaurus) griseus (Daud.). Dakhel. = Varanus griseus (Daud.). 
Scincus officinalis, Laur. Dakhel. 
Gongyhis oenllatus, Eorsk. Khargeh. = Chalcides ocellatus (Torsk.). 
Ccelopeltis insignitus. Eegenfeld. =Coelopeltis monspessulana (Herm.). 
Vipera cornuta, L. Dakhel. = Cerastes conudus (Hasselq. & Linn.). 
Bufo viridis, Laur. „ 
- Viaggio in Egitto, 1 876, pt. ii. 
* Zeitsch. Ges. Erdk. Berl. xiii. 1878. ' Cat. Batr. Grad. B. M. 1882, p. 106. 
5 Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, p. 129. ' Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1SS5, p. 678. 
