XV. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA 

 OF YUNNAN BASED ON COLLEC- 

 TIONS MADE BY J. COGGIN 

 BROWN, B.Sc. , 

 1909 — 1910. 



PART VI.— BATRACHIA AND REPTILES. 



By N. Annandale, D.Sc, F.A.S.B., Superintendent, 

 Indian Museum. 



Mr. Coggin Brown's collection of Batrachia and Reptiles is 

 not a large one and the specimens have suffered much through 

 leakage of spirit ^» route. vSome interesting forms are, however, 

 represented and I trust that the following records will prove inter- 

 esting from a geographical point of view. 



Batrachia. 

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I. Tylototriton verriicosus. Anderson. 



Specimens from Tengyueh (5,600 feet) and Yang-pi (5, 200 feet). 



This newt was originally described from Yunnan and occurs 

 also in L^pper Burma and the Eastern Himalayas. It is very 

 abundant at Kurseong (alt. 4,500—5,000 feet) in the Darjiling dis- 

 trict, breeding there in small pools of rain-water in June and July. 

 Larvae evidently just about to undergo their final metamorphosis 

 are common in August, but I have seen quite young larvae also in 

 April and it seems possible that the early spring showers induce a 

 few individuals to breed, although the majority do not do so until 

 the real break of the rains. 



2. Megalophrys carinensis (Boulenger). 



Leptobrachium carinense, Boulenger, Faun. Brit. Ind. — Rept., 



p. 511. 

 Megalophrys carinensis, id., P.Z.S., 1908 (i), p. 427. 



A large specimen from Hsia-kuan (6,700 feet). Originally 

 described from the Karjn Hills ; this frog also occurs in Tenasserim. 



3. Megalophrys major, Boulenger. 



? Ixalus lateralis, Anderson, Anat.Zooi Res. Yunnan Exp., ^. 844, 



pi. Ixxviii, fig. 5 (1879). 

 Megalophrys major, Boulenger, P.Z.S., 1908 (i), p. 416, pi. xxiii. 



