large eggs (+ 9 X 6 mm.) are provided with yellow yolk and 

 connected by a gelatinous string. They are deposited by the 

 female in a burrow, which she digs near the water, and she 

 protects them by coiling herself round them. The embryo has 

 three pairs of external gills. The larva, which possesses a pair 

 of spiracula but no gills, a newt-like head with well-developed 



Fig. I. Ichthypphis ghitinosus (L.), X Ve* 



eyes and a laterally compressed tail with an upper and a 

 lower dermal fold, lives in the water. 



Habitat: Nias ! ; Mentawei islands (Sipora); Sumatra (Upper 

 and Lower Langkat; Batak mts., ±300 and +iOOom. !; foot 

 of Mt. Simbolon; Tanang Talu, Ophir distr., looo m.!; Fort 

 de Kock; Indragiri; Rawas riv. in Palembang!); Borneo (Men- 

 ternan riv., near Bungol, Brit. N. -Borneo; Serawak; Matan) ; 

 Java (Sudimanik in Bantam). — Southern India, Ceylon, the 

 eastern Himalayas to the Malay Peninsula. 



2. Ichthyophis monochrous (Blkr.). 



Epicrium inonochrotis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indie, XVI, 1858/59, p. 188. 

 Ichthyophis monochrous Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 91, 



pi. IV, figs. I — ic (larva). 

 Ichthyophis monochrous Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., 



London, 1912, p. 286. 

 Ichthyophis monochrous Nieden, Gymnophiona, in „Das Tierreich", Berlin, pt. 37, 



1913^ P- 7- 

 } Ichthyophis webcri Taylor, Philipp. Jrn. of Sc, XVI, 1920, p. 227. 



' The inner series of teeth in the lower jaw composed of a 

 few teeth only. Snout shorter than the distance between the eyes. 



