AMPHIBIA AND REPTILIA. 
By F. F. Larpiaw, B.A. (Cantab.), Demonstrator in Zoology at the 
Owens College, Manchester. 
WirTH the single exception of Lygosoma albopunctatum every specimen contained in the 
collection belongs to a species which is abundant in Ceylon and in many cases through the 
Oriental region (e.g. Hemidactylus frenatus, Typhlops braminus and Rana tigrina). Lygosoma 
albopunctatum has not so far as I am aware been recorded from Ceylon. One or two 
species are characteristic Singhalese forms, viz. Aspidura trachyprocta and Nicoria trijuga. 
It is evident then that the reptilian fauna of these islands shows the closest connection 
with the fauna of Ceylon, and this is what one would expect, when the political and 
commercial dependence of these islands upon Ceylon is taken into consideration’. 
x» I have not been able to compare the specimens of Bufo melanostictus with a series 
from elsewhere. The differences between the two varieties, spoken of below (p. 120), though 
slight are yet sufficiently well-marked to attract attention. 
So far as I can discover no account has hitherto been given of the herpetological 
fauna of the two archipelagoes. In the following list I have referred only to Boulenger’s 
British Museum Catalogues, but another account of all the species may be found in the 
same author’s volume on the Amphibia and Reptilia in the “Fauna of British India.” 
I take this opportunity of thanking Mr Boulenger for his assistance in naming some 
specimens, and I am much indebted to Mr Stanley Gardiner for asking me to describe his 
collection. 
AMPHIBIA. 
Fam. Ranidae. 
1. Rana tigrina Dana. 
Rana tigrina, Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 26 (1882). 
A single female, a perfectly typical example of the species, from Minikoi, Laccadives. 
Range from the Philippine Islands and China to Ceylon. 
1 [The close connection with Ceylon is probably a growth of India. There has always been until recent years constant 
of quite recent date. The principal trade relations of the intercourse both with Arabia and Malaysia as well. Ep,] 
16th, 17th and 18th centuries were with the south-west coast 
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