. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . found. 20. Zamcnis algira. (Jan.) (Lortet. Poiss, et Rept. du lac deTiberiade, p. 88.) Found by the banks of the rivers, the Litany, Nahr el Khebir, andothers. This Snake did not occur to myself. 21. Tropidonotus hydrus. (Pall. Itin. i., p. 459, No. 18.) This water Snake swarms not only in the lakes, but in little pondsand ditches throughout the country. It is especially abundant in LakePhiala. It is found round the Caspian and Black Seas, as well as in NorthernSyria. Bottger unites this and the following species. 22. Tropid
. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . found. 20. Zamcnis algira. (Jan.) (Lortet. Poiss, et Rept. du lac deTiberiade, p. 88.) Found by the banks of the rivers, the Litany, Nahr el Khebir, andothers. This Snake did not occur to myself. 21. Tropidonotus hydrus. (Pall. Itin. i., p. 459, No. 18.) This water Snake swarms not only in the lakes, but in little pondsand ditches throughout the country. It is especially abundant in LakePhiala. It is found round the Caspian and Black Seas, as well as in NorthernSyria. Bottger unites this and the following species. 22. Tropidonotus tessellattis. Laur. Schinz. Faun. Europ. ii., p. 39. This Snake, which attains a considerable size, is of a greyish greencolour, with black spots, living among the thistles and herbage, generallyin marshy places. Dr. Lortet found it near the Nahr el Khebir, as well ason the plain of Gennesaret, and in gardens at Sidon. It feeds chiefly onsmall Mammals. This Snake inhabits all Southern Europe, from Spain to appears to be its Eastern limit. > X. Pi O < CD EhJWft 8o s rt REPTILIA. MS 23. Tropidonotiis )iatrix. (Linn. Syst. Nat. i., p. 380.) RingedSnake. Our well known common Snake, found throughout the whole ofEurope and Asia Minor, did not come under my own observation, butis reported from Palestine by Bottger, Fr. Miiller, and Bedriaga. This is its furthest extension southwards and eastwards. FAMILY, 24. Ccelopellis laccrtina. Wagl. Syst. Amphib., p. 189. Plate XIV. This rock and desert Snake, a native of North Africa, Arabia, andPersia, is not uncommon. I found it near Jerusalem, and in it seems to be equally common round the Lake of Gennesaret andLake Huleh, where Dr. Lortet collected it. 25. PsaiiDiiopliis vwniligcr. Daud. Rept. vii., p. 69. Found among the scrub at Tiberias, where it hunts for its Lortet also obtained it at Solomons Pools, near Jerusalem, on anolive tree. It hides among the leaves of trees and bush
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