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Show 1877.] LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON REPTILES FROM MADRAS. 685 The following papers were read :- 1. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Madras Presidency. By Lieut-Colonel R. H. B E D D O M E , C.M.Z.S. [Eeceived June 25, 1877.] OLIGODON TRAVANCORICUM, n. sp. Belly with quadrangular black spots. Scales in seventeen rows ; labials seven (the sixth does not enter the labial margin), one loreal, one anteocular, two postoculars; temporals 1+2. Head with symmetrical black markings; a black baud over the postfrontals and vertical, descending through the eye ; and another black band descends to corner of mouth. Body brown, with about twenty-nine nearly regular cross bars of black edged with white, each being the breadth of two scales. Hab. South-Travancore mountains, 3000 feet elevation. A single specimen only was found ; the position of the sixth labial away from the labial margin is probably not constant. Dr. Gunther states that it occurs in Simotes venustus; but in two specimens of that Snake now in my collection it is excluded in one but not iii the other. GYMNODACTYLUS JEYPORENSIS, n. sp. Of stout form. Body covered with large hexagonal or nearly square scales in only about eighteen rows across, a few about the vertical line being a little reduced in size ; scales of the belly smaller and rounded behind, in about thirty series across. Head covered with small, bead-like, rounded scales; upper labials ten, the last two very small; lower labials seven, the last minute ; median lower labial large, pointed behind, with a large pair of chin-shields behind it; subcaudals larger than the scales of the belly. Tail with two tubercles on each side close to the vent; pupil elliptic; opening of the ear subhorizontal. Colour of a light grey, irregularly blotched with dark brown; head with small blotches; nape with two large lunate blotches, one behind the other; body with three 8-shaped blotches, which, however, do not meet, and smaller intermediate markings ; tail irregularly blotched. Length 3| inches; no femoral nor praeanal pores. Hab. Jeypore hills. A single example was captured in a wood on the top of the Patinghe hill, 4200 feet elevation. In coloration somewhat like G. collegalensis (mihi) ; but that species has fine granular scales, in about fifty series across the back. This is a larger and stouter species, with more the facies of a Eublepharis, but without eyelids. BUFO TRAVANCORICUS, n. sp. Crown flat, without any bony enlargement; snout triangular, projecting ; canthus rostralis not very distinct; first, second, and third PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XLV. 45 |