On the Copepod Family Ascomyzontidge. 173 Nasal entire ; ventrals 191 ; subcaudals 44 6. A. Bocagii, Blgr. * (Angola.) Nasal entire ; ventrals 138-166 ; subcaudals 37-53 / 1. A. capensis, Smitli t. (E. & S.E. Africa.) 2. Second and third upper labials entering the eye. Ventrals 110-149 ; subcaudals 21-40 8.-4. nigricepn, Ptrs, (Mozambique, Nyassaland.) Ventrals 161 ; subcaudals 41 9. ^. inmcUitoliixeatus, Blgr. J (Angola.) II. A single prefrontal. Frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout 10. A. lineatus, Ptrs. (Guinea.) Frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout 11. A. annmalns, Blgr. (Gold Coast.) The types of the new snake.s described above are in tlie British Museum, and formed ]oart of a small collection on which Dr. F. Werner has recently reported (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiv. 1895, p. 190). I take this opportunity to observe that the lizard described as Gymnodactylus africanus^ Werner, is a Gonatodes, closely allied to the Indian O. or-natus. It should stand as Gonatodes africanus. XXVII. — The Subfamilies, Genera, and Species of the Copepod Family Ascomyzontidge, Thorell: Diagnosis, Synonymy y and Distrihution. By Dr. WiLH. GiESBEECHT, Naples. Tribus Ampharthrandria, Giesbr. 1892. Both anterior antennge of male transformed into clasping-organs, adapted for copulation. Family Ascomyzontidae^ Thorell, 1859. / Lips forming a si{)hon, produced or not into a shorter Or longer suctorial tube. Mandible stilet-shaped, enclosed in the sij)hou. Head coalescent with first thoracic segment. Abdo-* Uriechis cctjjensis, part., Bocage. t Cercocaluinus collaris, Giiuther. X Utiechi^ capensis, ^art., hocage. '
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