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Dr. Eiippell, Ob. JEgypt. I cannot distinguisli between them 

 and the A. pallida, Reuss, the type of which I have also 

 examined. 



AaAMA STELHO, Hasselq. & Lian. 



One specimen from Mount Arafat in the Hejaz. 



Taebophis dhaea, PorskSl. 



Coluber dhara, Porski.1, Descr. Animal. 1775, p. 14. 



Coluber obtusus, Eeuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 137. 



One <S . G-irenah Sidi Hamza near Medina. 



This specimen agrees in all its details with those from Egypt, 

 whence the species was described by Eeuss. ForskSl's G. dhara 

 was from Yemen. 



Total length 845 millim. Tail 123 millim. Ventrals 253. 

 Anal 1/1. Caudals 60 ? Scales 23. 



A Chameleon in the Cairo Museum. 



I am indebted to Dr. Keatinge and to Dr. Walter Innes for 

 having permitted me to bring to London, from the Cairo Museum, 

 a very fine male specimen of a chameleon preserved in alcohol, 

 and obtained, some years ago, in the Province of Yemen. And 

 I have to record the obligation under which I lie to Professor 

 Vaillant, of the Natural History Museum, Paris, for having 

 fowarded to the British Museum one of the types of C. calyp- 

 tratus, A. Dumeril, in order that I might compare it with this 

 male. The result of the comparison of the two has left no doubt 

 in my mind regarding their specific identity. 



ChaMjELEon caltpteattjs, a. Dumeril. 



Cat. Method. Eept. 1851, p. 31 ; Arch. Mus. vi. p. 259, pi. xxi. 

 fig. 1. 



The types of this species are females, and they are said to 

 have been obtained in the Nile Valley; but in the Catalogue of 

 Reptiles in the Paris Museum, where the species was first indi- 

 cated, no locality is given. The information that they came 

 from the Nile Valley was supplied afterwards by A. Dumeril. 

 The specimen in the Cairo Museum from Yemen is the only ex- 

 ample of the male in any Museum, so far as I am aware, and 



