INDEX. 415 
Punctulated Tree Snake, 268 
Pyrenean Newt, 383 
Pythonine, 196 
PYTHONS, 197, 204 
eggs of, 200, 202 
feeding, 194 
ineubation of, 200, 202 
Indian, 199, 200, 202 
jaws of, 175 
Python molurus, 199, 200, 202 
regius, 204 
sebee, 199, 200 
spilotes, 197 
Reticulated, 198 
Royal, 204 
size of, 166 
vivaria for, 187 
West African, 199, 200 
R. 
Racer, 248 
Rana Catesbiana, 307 
clamata, 310 
esculenta, 311 
gracilis, 307 
halecina, 315 
nccipitalis, 307 
temporaria, 316 
tigrina, 306 
Ranide, 303 
Ranunculuses, 37 
Rat Snake, Indian, 247 
Snake, South American, 
252, 
Rat-tail, 252 
Red Teguexin, 83 
Reptiles, British, 313 
Bucklered, 42 
classification of, 4 
European, Guide to, 313 
feeding, 100 
largest, 199 
poisonous, 80 
popular ideas of, 3 
repugnance for, 2 
starving, 100 
Reptiles, superstitions regarding, 
4, 112, 163, 170, 172, 
174, 186, 218, 328, 
331, 371 
Reticulated Python, 198 
Rhachiodontine, 214, 282 
Rhacophorus pardalis, 356 
Lthampholeon, 152 
Rhinechis scalaris, 264 
Rhinoderma darwinii, 295 
Rhiptoglossa, 151 
Rhomb-marked Snake, 285 
Ethynchocephalia, 5, 156 
tibbon Snake, 233 
Ringed Snake, 217 
River Tortoises, 43 
Rock Snake, Indian, 202 
Rough Newt, 383 
Rough-sealed Zonure, 107 
Royal Python, 204 
Snake, 270 
tuscon’s Newt, 383 
S. 
SALAMANDERS, 358 
Alpine, 363 
Aimphiuma means, 395 
tridactyla, 394 
Black, 363 
Caucasian, 364 
Chioglossa lusitanica, 365 
Congo ‘‘ Snake,’’ 397 
Cryptobranchus  alleghani- 
ensis, 393 
eggs of, 360 
fabulous power of, over fire, 
3959 
Fish-like, 391. See Fish- 
like Salamanders 
food of, 362, 364, 365 
for young, 361 
fossil, at CEningen, 391 
Gigantic, 391 
habits of, 358 
Hell Bender, 393 
Megalobotrachus maximus, 
391 
