1902.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 175 



A COLLECTION OF REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS FROM BORNEO 

 AND THE LOO CHOO ISLANDS. 



BY ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN. 



Through the courtesy of the officers of the AVistar Institute of 

 Anatomy and Biology, I have been permitted to examine the fine 

 collection of reptiles and batrachians, numbering 327 specimens, 

 made by Dr. William H. Furness, Dr. H. M. Hiller and Mr. 

 Alfred Harrison, Jr., in west and northwest Borneo and the Loo 

 Choo Islands, between the years 1893 and 1897. 



The thoroughness of previous collecting in the portions of Borneo 

 visited by these gentlemen, is attested by the fact that the present 

 series yields but one Bornean species hitherto undescribed ; but a 

 complete list of the species represented in the collection is here 

 given, with such notes as contribute to our knowledge of the herpe- 

 tology of those regions. 



BORNEO. 



REPTILIA. 



Chelonia. 

 Bellia borneensis (Gray). 



Five specimens ; Kapuas river. 



All about 70 mm. long. Dark olive-brown above ; plastron dirty 

 green with dark sutures. Soft parts colored like the carapace. 

 There are some irregularities in the plates. No. 2,413 has the 

 fourth and fifth vertebrals and the fourth costal broken up into si.x: 

 irregular plates. No. 2,406 has the fourth costal on one side, and 

 the fifth vertebral transversely divided. The front of the foreai-m 

 has enlarged transverse scales, but on the outer side of the hind 

 leg they are small. 

 Cyclemys platynota Gray. 



One specimen, 70 mm. long; Baram. 



Green above and below; each vertebral with a pair of small 

 black spots and each costal with one similar spot. Sutures between 

 all ventral shields dark. 



