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Show 1887.] BATRACHIANS FROM THE LOO CHOO ISLANDS. 149 longitudinal bands on the hinder half of the body ; upper lip, ventrals, and subcaudals uniform yellowish. Several specimens, the largest measuring 77 centim. 7. TROPIDONOTUS PRYERI, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 3.) Dentition syncranterian. Form slender, as in T. saurita. Tail one third of the total length. Head and eye moderate. Scales in 19 rows, all strongly keeled. Ventrals 176-180; subcaudals 121-128. Internasals truncated in front, more than half as large as the prefrontals ; one prse- and three postoculars ; loreal a little broader than deep ; normally eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the orbit; usually two temporals in the first row. Anterior part of body with large alternating black elongate spots, separated by a narrow zone of pale olive on the vertebral line, by broader yellowish vertical bars on the sides. Head dark olive, above spotted or marbled with black ; lip yellowish, the sutures between the anterior upper labials black ; an oblique black streak across the (normally) seventh upper labial ; a yellow spot, surrounded with black at the extremity of the jaws. Hinder part of body with a series of black dorsal spots and a lateral series of light spots. Lower parts yellowish, the hinder part of the body with a series of black streaks along each side of the ventrals, becoming confluent into a lateral black line on the subcaudals. Four specimens, the largest measuring 93 centim. The stomach of one contained a Rana gracilis. 8. PLATURUS FASCIATUS, Daud. 9. BOTHROPS FLAVOVIRIDIS, Hallow. I. c. p. 492. Upper and lower head-scales smooth ; upper very small, seven or eight in a transverse series between the supraoculars, which are large ; nasal divided ; eight upper labials, third and fourth largest, second bordering the loreal pit. Scales small, 35 across the middle of the body ; laterals smooth, the others feebly keeled. Ventrals 230; anal entire; subcaudals, 75 pairs. Yellowish green above, with symmetrical blackish markings ; lower parts pale yellow, with pale olive spots confluent into two bands on the anterior part of the belly. A single specimen, 525 millim. long. BATRACHIA. E C A U D A T A. 1. R A N A GRACILIS, Wiegm. 2. RHACOPHORUS VIRIDIS, Hallow. Polypedates viridis, Hallow. I. c. p. 500. ? Hyla cyanea, Hallow. 1. c. p. 494. Closely allied to R. schlegeli, Gthr., from which it differs in the longer hind limb, the tibia measuring half the length of head and body; when the limb is stretched forwards, the tibio-tarsal articulation |