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Lygosoma muelleri (Schlegel), Papuan; reported also from Ternate by- 

 Peters & Doria; this record, however, needs verification, as the species was not 

 found by Kiikenthal in his extensive collecting on Ternate and Halmahera, 

 nor had other collectors found it there up to the time Boettger wrote his account 

 of the- Kiikenthal collection. I showed a Ceram specimen of L. muelleri to 

 many inteUigent natives of Ternate, including indeed AU, the faithful companion 

 of Wallace during his many journeys, now an old man, and all agreed that they 

 had not seen such a lizard before. 



Dihamus novae-guineae Dum. & Bibr., a burrowing form, which has been 

 found sporadically from the Malay Peninsula to New Guinea. 



Of Ophidia these — Typhlops braminus (Daud.), almost omnipresent in 

 the eastern tropics. 



Python amethystinus (Schn.), Papuan. 



P. reticulatus (Schn.), Malayan. 



Enygxus carinatus (Schn.), Papuan. 



Natrix elongata (Jan.), confined to this island. 



Stegonolus cuculatus (Dum. & Bibr.), Papuan; found also in Queensland. 

 It occurs on Ceram alone, of all the Moluccas. 



*S. modestus (Dum. & Bibr.), Papuan. 

 • Dendrophis pidus (Gmelin),- Malayan. 



Hurria rhynchops (Schn.), wider-ranging, semi-aquatic. 



Fordonia leucobalea (Schleg.), of the same habits as Hurria. 



Boiga irregularis (Bech.), Papuan representative of a Malayan genus. 



Chrysopelea rhodoplcuron Boie, a Moluccan representative of a Malayan 

 genus. 



Pseudelaps muelleri (Schl.), a Papuan species found on this i.sland alone, 

 of all the Moluccas. 



Acanthophis antarcticus (Shaw), a Papuan species found west of New Guinea 

 only on Ceram and the Ke Islands. 



Of amphibians fewer still have been recorded. Hyla dolichopsis (Cope) 

 occurs, as it does on many other islands near by. H. vagabunda Peters and Doria 

 has been found, west of New Guinea, on this island alone. H. kampeni Barbour 

 is, so far as known, confined to this island. Cornufer corrugatus (A. Dum.) 

 occurs in Coram, whence specimens liave just been received, and so probably 

 on Ceram also. 



It will be seen by examining these lists that both among reptiles and amphi- 

 bians there are Papuan forms which have not been found upon any other of the 



