Nov.¢*] BARBOUR — ASIATIC AMPHIBIA AND REPTILIA (a 
fig. A). These are Mus. Comp. Zodél., no. 5980, from Cochin 
China. This stability of coloration greatly contrasts with the 
condition in other members of the same genus. 
Type locality: Cambodia. 
This species is known from Siam and the Indo-Chinese Penin- 
sula. Boettger (Ber. Senckberg. Nat. Ges., 1894, p. 134) makes 
this note, ““Simotes quadrilineatus D. B.=S. taeniatus Giinth.” 
The authority for this synonymous name should read Jan (Nouv. 
Arch. Mus. Paris, 1866, Bull. p. 7; also Icon. Gén., 1865, Livr. 12, 
pl. iv, fig. 3). The explanation of the plates of Livraison 12 of 
Jan’s Iconographie Général is by error a repetition of the explana- 
tion of the plates for Livraison 11, so that no details are given as to 
the history of the specimen figured. 
Holarchus nesiotis Barbour. 
Plate VII, figs. 5, 6. 
Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodél., Vol. 51, 1908, pp. 318-319. 
Nasal divided; rostral reaching far back above, completely separating 
the internasals and coming into contact with the prefrontals. Frontal 
very large, much longer than distance to tip of snout, longer than the 
parietals. Loreal square; two pre- and two postoculars; temporals 1 + 2, 
the lower of the two temporals is the smaller, while the opposite is the 
condition in H. formosanus figured by Stejneger (Herp. of Japan, 1907, 
p. 355). Eight upper labials on each side, fourth and fifth entering eye; 
four labials in contact with anterior chin shield, which measures about one 
and one third the size of the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, perfectly smooth. 
Ventrals distinetly angulate, 169; anal divided; subcaudals 56 pairs. 
Color pale brown above, with an indistinct light vertebral line and four 
dorsal and dorso-lateral longitudinal bands of slightly darker brown. 
Sides and belly ivory-white. There are dark brown spots on the parietals, 
also a symmetrical square brown, almost black, blotch below the eye on 
supralabials 5 and 6. A chevron-like band on the nape, with its apex 
directed forward. 
Type,— no. 7107, Mus. Comp. Zodl., a single specimen, about 355 mm. 
long, from Ting an, Hainan Island. Taken by a collector for Mr. Owston. 
Holarchus nesiotis is related to H. formosanus hainanensis 
(Boettger). 
