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Show 600 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [May 16, Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., read an account of the Fishes obtained by the Congo Free State Expedition, under Lieutenant Lemaire, in Lake Tanganyika, in 1898. Ten new species were described, of which three were made the types of new genera. This paper will be printed in full in the Society's 'Transactions.' The following papers were read : - 1. Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries. By STANLEY S M Y T H FLOWER, F.Z.S., 5th Fusiliers. [Received April 14, 1899.] (Plates XXXVI. & XXXVIL) Page Part I. Introductory 6U0 ,, II. Table of Species, showing the Relationship of the known Fauna of the Peninsula and Siam to that of the neighbouring Countries 602 ,, III. List of Species, with Remarks on their Localities, Habits, Life-coloration, &c 609 Part I.-INTRODUCTORY. Malay Peninsula Reptiles.-In the Proceedings of this Society for 1896, pp. 856-914, there appeared a paper giving an account of the Reptiles and Batrachians that I had collected in the Malay Peninsula from March 1895 to April 1896, and a list of the species recorded from that neighbourhood by Cantor, Stoliczka, and others. That list included 176 species of Reptiles, of which 9, viz., Dermochelys coriacea, Hardella thurgi, Gyclemys dhor, Tropidonotus subminiatus, Macrocalamus lateralis, Hypsirhina indica, Hydrophis nigrocinctus, Aipysurus edyouxi, and Amblycephalus Icevis were of doubtful occurrence in the region. In the present list 3 of the doubtful species are recorded for certain, viz., Dermochelys coriacea,Macrocalamus lateralis, and Aipysurus eydouxi: 9 more species are added, viz., Geocmyda grandis, Testudo elongata, Gymnodactylus marmoratus, Mabuia rugifera, Lygosoma maculatum, Zaocgs fuscus, Coluber tceniurus, Hypsirhina bocourtii, and Hydrophis gracilis ; Gonatodes penangensis becomes a synonym of G. affinis; and the names of Hemidactylus gleadovii and I/ggosoma jerdonianum are changed to H. brookii and L. atrocostatum respectively : thus making a total of 184 species. Only one genus, Macrocalamus, is peculiar to the Peninsula, and 6 species, viz., Gonatodes affinis, Lnggosoma singaporense, Cylindrophis lineatus, Macrocalamus lateralis, Calamaria albiventer, and Hypsirhina indica. Siamese Reptiles.-So far as 1 am aware, only one paper has yet |