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coupled with the fact that his material came from Java, makes it quite certain 

 as to what species he really had. 



On page 43 he speaks of, and describes briefly, Septobrachium, using, how- 

 ever, no specific name. This spelling is obviously a typographical error, in that 

 the name is correctly given on page 81 ; for this reason it has no standing in 

 nomenclature. 



The reasons for uniting Xenophrys and Leptobrachium with Megalophrys, 

 are given in Boulenger's convincing paper on the subject (Proc. loc. cit., p. 425). 



Neither Bryant nor I met with this interesting frog; but, thanks to my 

 friend. Major P. A. Ouwens, I have received three fine adults, and four larvae 

 showing various stages of development. These tadpoles have been studied and 

 figured by van Kampen (Nat. tijd. Ned. Ind., 1909, 69, 1, p. 27, pi. 1, fig. 1). 



The series before me is from Pengalongan, Malabar, Java. The species 

 is confined to the mountains wherever it occurs. 



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Gymnodactylus marmoratus Dumeril et Bibron. 



DuMERiL ET Bibron, Erpet. gen., 1S3G, 3, p. 420, pi. 34, fig. 1. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 

 18S5, 1, p. 44. 



Type locality: — Java. 



Boulenger credits this name to (Kuhl) Fitzinger, Neue class, rept., 1826, 

 p. 47. The name is here a nomen nudum, and is apparently based on a name 

 received in litt. from Boie. Stejneger, who has Isis at hand, writes me regard- 

 ing this case the following:— "We next hear of it in Isis for 1827, but not in the 

 paper by F. Boie (H. Bole's brother), but in one by Schlegel, severely criticising 

 Fitzinger's work of 1826. We find the following: p. 289 'Herrn Boies neue 

 Genera folgen nun in systematische Ordnung. 



p. 290 



'3) N. G. Goniodactylus Kuhl. Species: 1) marmoratus Kuhl. n. sp. 

 2) Ascul. stenodactylus Licht. — " 



The name is thus also a nomen nudum here as well as in Gray, Griffith's 

 Anim. kingdom, to which Boulenger {loc. cit.) refers. Dumeril and Bibron were 

 then the first to describe and figure the species, and the name must, of course, 

 be credited to them. 



The lizard is not a rare one, and is generally found under stones or logs in 

 more or less open country. I have seen a few examples in cracks in the bark of 

 trees in the forest. M y series of six came from Buitenzorg. Bryant got one at 



