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Show 1871] DR. J. ANDERSON ON TESTUDO PHAYREI. 425 semicircular, closed by a small valvular Hap of skin. Eye of moderate size ; upper eyelid large, granular. Fifteen knob-like glands along the side of the body : the first a short distance behind and about the axilla and on a level with the parotoids ; the last three behind the leg when it is extended at right angles to the body. The vertebral glandular ridge begins on a line with the scroll-like extremities of the cranial crest, and terminates at the root of the tail. An obscure line of pores, larger than those of the rest of the body, from below the arm to the groin, rather towards the under surface of the side. A series of pores behind the angle of the mouth along the lateral cranial ridge to the top of the snout, on the loreal region behind the eye, and along the mandible and internal to it. The chin and throat thickly covered with small, smooth, porous, glandular tubercles of nearly uniform size. The sides and upper parts of the body and of the tail are densely covered with glandular tubercles (porous) of various sizes and irregularly distributed. The ventral surface transversely wrinkled and covered with very minute porous glands, which scarcely project above the level of the skin. The upper margin of the tail sharp, and commencing with the last lateral knob. Under surface rather rounded. Numerous folds on the inner margin of the vent. Forearms extend the length of the fingers beyond the snout; the legs reach halfway to the axilla. Uniform blackish brown, paler on the lips, snout, chin, throat, and under surface of the limbs, all of which are of a brownish-olive tinge. Under surface of the tail dull orange-yellow, fading to lightish brown on the sides. Length from tip of snout to vent 3 to 4 inches; vent to tip of tail 3 to 3 ^ inches. Hab. Nantin, Momien, and Hotha valleys, Western Yunan, China. I first met with this remarkable Newt in the flooded rice-fields about the little Chinese town of Nantin, where, however, it was not very common. In the more elevated and subtemperate valley of Momien, at about a height of nearly 5000 feet above the sea, and in the high sequestered valley of Hotha (5000 feet) it was far from uncommon. 3. Note on Testudo phayrei, Blyth. By JOHN ANDERSON, M.D. [Eeceived April *-7, 1871.] With reference to the correspondence between Drs. Gray and Sclater, which appeared in the « Athenaeum ' of November and December last*, on the statements of Mr. Theobald regarding Dr. Gray's Scapia falconeri and Blyth's Testudo phayrei, I am in a position to * See ' Athenreum,' Nov. 12th, 1870, Nov. 26th, 1870, Dec. 3rd, 1870, and Dec. 10th, 1870. |