ADDENDA. AND COERI&BNDA. 623 



^^^ . Page 397. Zamenis dahlii. 



Zamenis dahlii, Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. aus Bosn. u. Herxeg. ii. p. 627 

 (1894). 



»(. Hgr. (V. 210 ; C. 112). Mt. Tabor. Canon Tristram [E.]. 



Add:— 



Page 398. Zamenis rhodorhacMs. 



Zamenis ladacensis, var. subnigra, Boettg. Zool. Anz. 1893, p. 118. 

 rliodorhacMs, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 654. 



y. Yg. (V. 229 ; C. 129). Zaila, Somaliland. Capt. Nurse [P.]. 



^^^. Page 399. Zamenis ventrimaculatus. 



Acanthocalyx ventrimaculatus, Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soo. 

 xviii. 1895, p. 215. 



Page 401. Add two species : — 

 Via. Zamenis rogersi. 

 Zamenis rogersi, Anders. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) xii. 1893, p. 439. 



Allied to Z. rhodorhacMs and Z. ventrimaculatus, but rostral about 

 half as deep as broad. Ventrals 197-201; anal divided; sub- 

 caudals 95-105. Pale sandy, with a dorsal series of large, Ught- 

 edged dark spots, alternating on each side with a series of smaller 

 spots ; sides of head and neck orange ; a dark oblique streak below 

 the eye and an oblique band on the temple ; uniform white beneath. 



Total length 830 millim. ; tail 215. 



Lower Egypt. 



a. Yg. (V. 198 ; C. 95). Desert east of Helouan, Dr. J. Anderson 



near Cairo. [PJ. , 



6. J (V. 197 ; C. 105). Beltim, Delta. Dr. J. Anderson f ^ 



c. 2 {V.201: C.96). Suez. Dr. J. Anderson 



, [P.]. 



17 6. Zamenis brevis. 

 Zamenis brevis, Boukng. Ann. Mus. Oenova, (2) xv. 1895, pi. iii. 

 fig. 3. 



Snout obtuse, feebly projecting. Eostral once and a half as 

 broad as deep, the portion visible from above measuring one fourth 

 its distance from the frontal ; internasals as long as the praefrontals ; 

 frontal broader than the supraocular, once and two fifths as long 

 as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; one prseocular, not in 

 contact with the frontal, with a subocular below it; two post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth enter- 

 ing the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields; posterior chin-shields as long as the anterior and 



