GLAUCONIA CAIEI. 235 
The species described by Jan as Stenostoma fifzingeri 1 is a closely allied form. I 
am indebted to Professor Andres, of the Milan Museum, for the information that the 
type is marked in Jan's handwriting " Is. Ehodus." It was received from the Vienna 
Museum. In view of the close similarity of G. fitzingeri to G. cairi, may not the 
" Is. Ehodus " of Jan be the island of the same name in the Nile at Cairo, and not, 
as has been supposed, the island of that name at the entrance to the iEgean Sea? 
Jan has described a Glaucoma with a hooked beak, from Sennaar, under the 
name of Stenostoma macrorhynchum 2 . There is a specimen (said to be from the 
" Euphrates 1 ") in the British Museum that agrees with Jan's figure. 
In 1896, M. Jaquet 3 found near Biskra, on the confines of the Algerian Sahara, a 
Glaucoma regarding which he consulted Professor Boettger, who suggested that it was 
allied to G. macrorhynchus. M. Jaquet, however, believing that it differed from that 
species, named it G. algeriensis. The features of G. macrorhynchus are its prominently 
hooked snout, concave inferiorly ; the presence of a supraocular ; the rostral prolonged 
backwards to the level of the eyes ; a divided nasal ; the ocular bordering the lip, with 
a very small labial in front of it and a larger labial behind it. These features are 
represented in M. Jaquet's figure of G. algeriensis, with the exception of the third, 
as the rostral is portrayed as being continued slightly behind the level of the eyes ; but 
this detail is rectified by the description, in which it is said that it is not prolonged 
beyond the level of the eyes. In the drawing the nasal is also represented as completely 
divided, but in the description it is stated "La nasale n'est pas divisee." The ocular 
in the sketch is shown to reach the labial margin and to have a labial before and 
behind it. The features of this species, so far as they can be made out from the figures 
and description, leave little doubt regarding its identity with G. macrorhynchus. 
On the coffin of Nesi-Pa-Ur Shef, XVIIIth Dynasty, a small serpentine red-coloured 
figure occurs that recalls the form and general appearance of a Qlauconia. 
1 Icon. Gen. 2 livr. Dec. 1861, pis. v. & vi. fig. 7 ; Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. i. 1862, p. 189 ; Icon. Gen. 
texte, 1864, p. 37. 
- Icon. Gen. 1 livr. Dec. 1800, pis. v. & vi. fig. 12 ; Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. i. 1862, p. 190 ; Icon. Gen. 
texte, Oct. 1864, p. 39 ; Blgr. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) vi. 1890, p. 92 ; Cat. Snakes B. M. i. 1893, p. 61. 
3 Bibliogr. Anat. (Nicolas), 1896, No. 2, pp. 79-80, 7 figs. 
