GLAUCONIA CAIEI. 233 
OPIIIDIA. 
GLAUCONIID.E i. 
GLAUCONIA. 
Glaucoma, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 139. 
Head not denned from neck ; snout rounded or hooked ; rostral large, prolonged on 
to the upper surface of the head ; nasal large, entering the lip, semidivided from 
behind or divided by an oblique incision ; ocular large, erect, bordering the lip or 
excluded from it, separated above from its fellow by one or more scale-like shields ; 
frontal small, scale-like ; supraocular present or absent ; praeanal plate enlarged. 
Glauconia caiei, Dum. & Bibr. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1, and fig. 9 text.) 
Stenostoma cairi, Dum. & Bibr. vi. 1844, p. 323 ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 2 livr. Dec. 1861, pis. v. & vi. 
fig. 6 ; Icon. Gen. texte, 1864, p. 37 ; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 1 16 ; Miiller, 
Verb. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, p. 141. 
Glauconia cairi, Blgr. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) vi. 1890, p. 92 ; Cat. Snakes B. M. i. 1893, p. 65 ; 
Anderson, Herpet. of Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 106. 
2. Island of Rlioda, Cairo. Dr. "Walter Innes. 
1. Ground-floor of a house, Cairo. 
1. In the alluvium, Luxor. 
1. Garden of the Luxor Hotel, amongst wet grass. 
1. Durrur. 
Snout rounded ; rostral broader than the nasal, prolonged backwards nearly to the 
level of the eyes ; nasal semidivided ; nostril not far from the rostral ; first labial very 
small, less than one-fourth the size of the second labial ; ocular nearly as large as 
the nasal, broadly entering the labial margin ; one supraocular, slightly larger than 
the frontal ; five lower labials ; diameter of the body about ^ - of the total length ; 
tail about fourteen times in the length ; fourteen scales round the body. Eeddish 
purple-brown above, paler below. 
Total length 193 millim., tail 14 millim. ; greatest diameter 2-3 millim. 
I have met with this species myself only at Luxor. One specimen I captured 
among freshly watered grass in the garden of the hotel at Luxor, and the other 
was dug out of the banks of a canal that were being trimmed. The specimens 
from the island of Rhoda were found under stones close to the river, the ground below 
1 Blgr. Oat. Snakes B. M. i. 1893, p. 57. 
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