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Reptilia- — continued 



Twenty-two specimens collected by Mr. W. P. Lowe in Nubia 

 and the Red Sea Province of the Sudan, including a Lizard new 

 to the collection {Mahuia wingatii) and a new Snake {Gontia 

 africana) ; presented hy Ahel Chapman, Esq. 



Four specimens collected by Dr. E. J. Baxter in Usagara, 

 East Africa ; purchased. 



Four specimens from the Gold Coast and Northern Nigeria ; 

 presented hy J. Morrow Gamphell, Esq. 



Five Snakes from the Gold Coast ; presented hy Dr. Scott 

 Macfie. 



A rare Amphisbsena {Amphishoina liheriensis) from Sierra 

 Leone ; presented hy Guy Aylmer, Esq. 



A rare Snake (Elapechis moehii) from Nigeria ; presented 

 by Prof. J. W. W. Stephens. 



Twenty-one specimens collected by Mr. G. L. Bates in 

 S. Cameroon, including types of a new Blind Snake {Typhlops 

 vermis); purchased. 



Three Snakes from the Kasai, Belgian Congo ; purchased. 



Seven Snakes from S. Rhodesia ; presented hy Mrs. E. 

 Spenser Jones. 



Twenty-one specimens from Namaqualand, part of a collec- 

 tion made by the Hon. P. A. Methuen and including the co-type 

 of a new Gecko (Narudasia f estiva) ; presented hy the 

 Trustees of the Percy Sladen Funds. 



America. 



A Snake from Florida [Tropidonotus compressicauda) new 

 to the collection ; received in exchange from the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Examples of a rare Lizard (Gricosaura typica), from Cuba, 

 new to the collection ; received in exchange from the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



One hundred and forty-three specimens from Mexico ; 

 presented hy Dr. H. Gadoiu, F.R.S. 



A remarkably large Boa Constrictor, from Trinidad ; pre- 

 sented by the Zoological Society of London. 



Seventy-six specimens from the Choco, Republic of 

 Colombia, including types of two new Lizards {Lepidoblepharis 

 inter raedius, Polychrus spurrelli) and of three new Snakes 

 {Leptophis brevis, H omalo cranium, nigrum, Elaps spurrelli) ; 

 presented hy Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell. 



Batrachia. 



Two hundred and ninety-two specimens were added to the 

 collection, two hundred and thirty-nine by presentation, forty- 

 eight by purchase, and five by exchange. 



