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Show 166 MR. G. A. BOULENGER O N REPTILES [Feb. 21, 22. CALLOPHIS MACCLELLANDII Reinh. A single specimen, measuring 660 millim., of the typical form (J. V.193; C.36). 23. ANCISTRODON ACUTUS Gthr. Two male specimens (V. 164, 161; C. 56, 59). This large pit-viper, discovered by Mr. A. E. Pratt in the mountains north of Kiukiang and since obtained at Ichang by the same traveller, is, I am informed by Mr. Styan, of gentle disposition and is freely handled by the Chinese. 24. LACHESIS GRAMINEUS Shaw. A single specimen. BATRACHIA. 1. RANA KUHLI D. & B. Numerous specimens of a small form-the largest male measuring 60 millim. from vent to snout, the largest female full of ripe eggs 51-distinguished by a rather shorter web between the toes, the membrane reaching only the penultimate phalanx of the fourth toe. The first finger does not extend, or extends but very slightly, beyond the second. Males have a very large head and are devoid of a vocal sac and of nuptial horny excrescences. A Chinese specimen, from the Lofau bills, Province of Canton, has been described by Peters in 1882 under the name of Nyctibatrachus sinensis. Specimens obtained by Dr. J. Anderson in Yunnan, and now preserved in the British Museum, are iutermediate betAveen the Kuatun specimens and the typical form from Java in the extent of the web on the sides of the fourth toe. 7 out of the 19 Kuatun specimens have a yellow vertebral stripe. 2. RANA BOULENGERI Gthr. This species is very closely allied to B. Jcuhlii, Avith which I have confounded it in the British Museum ' Catalogue.' The female, from Ningpo, has been described and figured by Giinther in the ' Reptiles of British India,' p. 404, pi. xxvi. fig. A, as R. Jcuhlii, and the breeding male has been since described from two specimens from Ichang and kindly named after me (Ann. & Mag. N. H. [6] iv. 1889, p. 222). Young specimens from near Ningpo have been presented to the British Museum by Messrs. Bassett-Smith and J. J. Walker. Two specimens, male and female, are in Mr. La Touche's collection. The following description is based on 7 specimens. Vomerine teeth in two small oblique groups commencing on a level with, and extending back beyond, the choane. No toothlike processes in the lower jaw. Head broader than long ; snout short, broadly rounded, a little shorter than the diameter of the |
