MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 681 



No. XXXIII.— THE HABITS OF THE TREE FROG 

 {R HA COPHOR US MA C ULA TUS) . 



I watched a little tree frog that twice came on to the table in the 

 verandah in the evenings to make a meal off the insects attracted there by 

 the lamp. 



He looked very thin and was very stolid, only moving when something 

 edible came pretty close. The attitude he adopted was comical : folding 

 his "arras " close under him and sitting in a most "collected " posture as 

 if he was going to make a mighty leap. He let all sorts of insects 

 crawl over him only objecting when they stopped too long in his eye ; he 

 would then wipe them off' lazily with a front leg. He only ate things if 

 still alive. I caught some insects and after incapacitating them put them 

 in front of the frog but he would not pay any attention to them unless 

 they still moved : when he speedily devoured them. 



The projection of the tongue is a curious sight : it looks as if half the 

 animals inside was coming out of the huge gape ! The tongue is covered 

 with some gummy substance which adhered to the table cloth. He ap- 

 peared several times to shoot out his tongue and leave this sticky mess on 

 the table when there was nothing there to catch : perhaps he was merely 

 " bird liming " the space in front of him to stop an unwary passer-by. I 

 was anxious to see if he would touch a " geranium bug " {Cydnus indicm) 

 and was most surprised to see him take two or three : they must have been 

 very satisfying or did not agree with him as he left soon afterwards jumping 

 off the table on to the vertical back of a chair, a characteristic feat. Per- 

 haps this diet accounts for his thin appearance! I see E. H. A. remarks 

 " their aspect was always famine stricken and angular." 



G. O. ALLEN, 

 Dehra Dun. 



19-1-19. 



MiRZAPUR, U. P., 



lOth October 1912. 



No. XXXIV.— THE HABITS OF DRYOPHIS MYCTERIZANS. 



The other day 1 came on a large Dryophis myderizans in the act of swal- 

 lowing an Earth Snake— a species of Sylihura. On my going up close the 

 Dryophis disgorged the portion of the Sylibwra that was down its throat and 

 made off, as did the latter, apparently none the worse for the ordeal ! 

 Have any other members of our Society noticed D. mycterizans eating other 

 snakes ? 



A. M. KINLOCH. 



KoLLexGODE P. O. via Palghat, S. I. 

 1st January 1919, 



No. XXXV.— THE BITE OF THE LARGE SPOTTED VIPER 



(LACHESIS MONTICOLA). 



The following may be of interest to you. A boy about twelve years old 

 was brought to' me on the 7th instant, and he and father both stated that a 

 snake had just bitten the boy. Their house is quite close, and could not 

 have taken more than 10 minutes for them to come to me, and they declar- 

 ed that they had come at once. 1 found a puncture on the first finger of 

 the right hand where the boy said he had been bitten, and on equeezing a 



