1(3 Kept. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACH1A. 
Dryophis mycterizans , Daud., figured ; id. t. c. fig. 108. 
Hypsirhina blanfonlii , n. n., for II. maculata , Blanf., nec D. & B., id. 
t. c. p. 377. H. hageni , n. sp., v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyd, Mus. xii, 
p. 20, pi. i, Deli, Sumatra. 
^ Pscudoferania , n. g., differing from Ferania in having the scales in 21 
rows, in having an extra shield on the head interposed between the pre- 
frontals, and in having two pre- and one post-occulars. P. macleayi , 
n. sp., Douglas-Ogilby, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) v, p. 51, Herbert 
River, Queensland. 
^Neospades, n. g., apparently related to Fordonia , Gray, but with a loreal 
shield and a divided nasal. N. Jcentii , n. sp., De Yis, P. R. Soc. Queensl. 
vi [1889], p. 238, Cambridge Gulf, N. W. Australia. 
Proteroglypha. 
Elaps trilineatus , D. & B.: note by v. Lidtii de Jeude, in M. Weber, 
Zool. Ergebn. p. 191, pi. xvi, fig. 10. E. sumatranus, n. sp., id. t. c. 
p. 1Q0, Sumatra. 
Vermicellci bertholdi, Jan, described by Douglas-Ogilby, Rec. Austral. 
Mus. i,p. 80. 
Bnichysoma triste , Gthr., redescribod by id. t. c, p. 97. 
Iloploceplmlus melanurus , Blgr., and woodfordii , Blgr., figured by 
Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1890, pi. ii, figs. 1 & 2. H. elapoides , n. sp., id. t. c. 
p, 30, pi. ii, fig. 3, Florida I., Solomon Is. 
Naia tripudians x Merr. : note on specimens from Sumatra ; id. t. c , 
p. 35. , 
Acanthophis Icevis , Mach, redescribed by Douglas-Ogilby, Rec. Austral. 
Mus. i, p. 99. 
Hydrus platurus , L. : on a monstrous specimen with two pairs of 
nostrils ; Bcettger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1890, p. lxxiv. 
Enhydrina valalcadien , Boie, figured by Boulenger, Faun. Ind., 
Jtept. p. 406. 
Amblycephalidas. 
Astenodipsas malaccana , Ptrs., figured by v. Lidtii de Jeude, in M. 
Weber, Zool. Ergebn. pi. xv, figs. 4-6. 
VirERIDJE. 
Vipera ber us, L. : A. B. Meyer &. F. Helm publish reports on the 
distribution of the Viper in the kingdom of Saxony, as appendices to 
Jahresbericht fiber ornithologischen Beobachtungstationen im Konig- 
reich Sachsen, iv, 1889, pp. 148-150, & v, 1890, pp. 72-74. V. aspis , L. : 
on its occurrence in the Black Forest ; J. Blum, Zool. Gart. xxxi, pp. 12 
& 265. V. russellii, Shaw, figured by Boulenger, Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p. 420. V. rhinoceros , Schleg., figured by Buttikofer, Reisebilder aus 
Liberia, ii, pi. xxxii. V. raddei , n. sp. [F. xanthina , Strauch, nec Gray], 
Bcettger, Zool. Anz. xiii, p. 62, Armenia. 
