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Both adders and ring snakes are found in the Forest 
of Dean. 
IT have taken the small red viper in Hereford and 
Monmouth, and it almost certainly occurs in Glouces- 
tershire, and in the Forest of Wyre in Shropshire. 
The smooth snake is unrecorded in this province. 
VI. South Wales Province. 
Vapera berus.—The adder is very common in the 
mountainous districts of Pembroke, Cardigan, and 
Caermarthen, and often attains a length of 2 feet 
there. This province has been little worked for 
serpents, but I believe, from correspondence in my 
possession, that inland from Cardigan Bay the Ophidia 
are almost as numerous as anywhere. Parts of this 
district are wild and undisturbed, and a systematic 
investigation would probably yield some interesting 
results, 
Tropidonotus natrix.—The ring snake in Breconshire 
attains its maximum average in the country—namely, 
over 4 feet—and larger specimens are found not un- 
commonly. The whole of this province affords excel- 
lent “cover” for snakes, and they have here also a 
minimum risk of extermination. It is difficult, how- 
ever, to get very much reliable information for this 
province, Naturalist Clubs and competent observers 
being few and far between. 
Just as these pages go to press a very interesting 
new fact in this province is brought to hght. <A speci- 
