XIV. REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF REPTILES 

 AND BATRACHIANS FROM JAVA. 



By X. Annandale, D.Sc, F.A.S.B., (Zoological 



Sa i vey of India). 



Mr. II. ('. Robinson lias kindly given me the opportunity 

 ■ >t examining a collection oi reptiles and Batrachia made by 

 him in February, 1916, at Tjibodas, in tin- mountains of Western 

 Java, at altitudes between 4.71)0 and 6,500 feet. He lias further 

 permitted me to retain in the Indian Museum a first set of all 

 the specimens, including the type of the only new species, a 

 frog of the interesting genus Nyctixalus, Boulenger. 



There i- no recenl monograph on the herpetology of Java, 

 but both the reptiles and the Batrachia are well known and 

 Tjibodas has been a favourite collecting station. In his 

 memoir entitled "A Contribution to the Zoogeography of the 

 Fast Indian Islands" Barbour 1 has discussed the distribution 

 of both groups in reference to lie island as a whole, but. as in 

 istern countries, then- is -till much to be done in the 

 study of local faunas. 



Mr. Robinson's collection is evidently representative of 

 the local fauna of tin district in which it was mad.. It 

 includes specimens of 1 ', species of reptiles and of 1 ; of 

 bntrachians. as follow-: 



Reptii I A. 

 Lizards 



Gonyocephalus chamaeleontinus (Laur.) 10 specimens. 



C alotes tympanistriga (Gray) ... to ,. 



Lygosoma temminckii, D. & B. ... 28 



Mabuia multifasciata (Kuhl.) ... 7 

 Snakes— 



Tropidonotus chrysargus, Sehleg. ... j specimens. 



Zamtnh korrus (Sehleg. 1 ... 1 juv. 



Oligodon bitorquatus, Boie .. 1 specimen. 



Calamaria leucocephala, I). & B.- ... 1 



' alamaria linitaei, Boie ... 3 specimens. 



Psammodynastespulverulenins, Boie... .-; 



Bimgarus candidiis, Linn. ... 1 specimen, 



Doliophis intestina lis (Laur.) ... 1 



Ancistrodon rhodostotna (Boie ... 2 specimens. 



(1) Mem Mus Zocl Harvard, XLIV, No 1 (1912) 



\ melanic specimen in which the greater part of the ientral surface as 



