No. XVII.— LIST OF THE BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES OBTAINED BY 

 PROF. STANLEY GARDINER* ON HIS SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE 

 SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA. 



By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



(Communicated by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



(3 Text-figures.) 

 Read 2nd February, 1911. 



I. SEYCHELLES. 

 BATRACHIANS. 



Apod a. 



1. Hypogeophis rostratus, Cuv. 



Mane : sea coast below Cascade ; Baie Lazare ; Cascade, 800 ft. ; W. side of Mt, 

 Seychellois, 1200ft. Praslin. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, 1400ft, 



2. Hypogeophis alter nans, Stejn. 



Mahe: Baie Lazare, Cascade (J. C. Fryer). Praslin. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, 

 1400 ft. (a pied albino). 



3. Hypogeophis brevis, sp. n. (Fig. 1.) 



About 12 teeth on each side of each jaw. Snout obtusely pointed, very strongly 

 projecting ; eyes very indistinct, the distance between them less than the length of the 

 snout ; tentacle below and a little behind the nostril. Body very short, its diameter 1 4 

 or 15 times in the total length; 130 folds, the first 9 to 15 complete, the following 

 alternately complete and incomplete, the last 93 to 100 complete. Tail indistinct, rounded. 

 Uniform dark brown. 



Total length 112 mm. 



Two specimens from Mahe, the smaller (measuring only 40 mm.) from Cascade, the 

 larger from the west side of Mt. Seychellois, altitude 1200 ft. 



* [I made no attempt to obtain complete collections of these groups on this Expedition, having secured 

 a large number of specimens in 1905 (see G. A. Boulenger, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. XII. p. 291). Indeed I only 

 collected in the indigenous jungle and even then rejected forms which I knew I had previously obtained. The 

 present list raises the number of Seychelles species of the Amphibia from 8 to 11. Mr J. C. Fryer visited Bird 

 and Dennis coral islands to the north of the Seychelles Bank, spending a fortnight on each. He then went to 

 Aldabra for four months visiting other islands en route. J. Stanley Gardiner.] 



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