ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a a few notes on Indo-Malayan Reptiles and Amphibians, chiefly collected by the author along the Burmese and Tenasserim coasts, about Penang and on the Nicobar and Andaman islands. Rana Plicatella has a body moderately stout with longish hind-limbs and swollen tips to the toes. The length of the body is very nearly equal to the distance between the vent and the middle of the tarsus. Gymnodactylus Pulchellus has six dark, white-edged bands across the body. In several specimens of Simotes Bicatenatus, the dark dorsal band is divided by a pale reddish line. A young specimen has only one praeocular, and only the upper smaller temporal is in contact with the postoculars. Ophites Albofuscus is a remarkably slender snake, measuring 1875 inches, of which the tail is 575 inch. It has seventeen rows of scales, all strongly keeled, the keels on the back being finely crenulated.