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NOTE XLIV. 



ON A COLLECTION OF REPTILES FROM NIAS, AND 

 ON CALAMARIA YIRGULATA, BOIE. 



Dr. Th, W. van LIDTH de JEÜDE. 



Some months ago a collection of Reptiles from Nias was 

 presented to our Museum by Mr. J. D. Pasteur. The col- 

 lection , though not a very large one , is of much impor- 

 tance to our Museum as up to this date no Reptiles from 

 Nias were found in our collections. The Erpetology of the 

 isle of Nias has already formed the subject of three 

 papers, viz.: 1° a paper by the late Dr. J. G. Fischer^), 

 2° a list published by Mr. G. A. Boulenger 2) and 3° 

 Mr. E. Modigliani's paper on the Fauna erpetologica of 

 the isle of Nias ^). To the enumeration and the descrip- 

 tion of the Reptiles collected by Mr. Modigliani himself 

 he adds a list of all the Reptiles of the isle of Nias men- 

 tioned by Fischer and Boulenger as well as by himself. This 

 list contains 43 species and though our collection consists 

 of only 15 species, three of them are new to the Fauna 

 of Nias. It is therefore that I give a full list of the spe- 



1) Dr. J. G. Fischer, Ueber eine Collection Reptilien und Amphibien vou 

 der Insel Nias, Abh. d. Naturw. Ver. in Hamburg. Bd. IX. 



2) G. A. Boulenger, A list of Reptiles and Batrachians from the Island of 

 Nias, Ann. a. Mag. of Nat. History, 1885. 



3) E. Modigliani, Materiali per la Fauna erpetologica dell' isola Nias, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 2, Vol. 7. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XJI. 



