and Bufo stomaticus. 463 



My best thanks are due to Professor Llitken for enabling 

 me to examine and describe these interesting specimens. 



Lycodon atropurpureus^ Cantor. 



Snout much depressed, with swollen lips, subspatulate ; 

 eye moderate. Rostral twice as broad as deep, scarcely 

 visible from above ; internasals as long as broad, half as 

 long as the praifrontals ; frontal once and two thirds as 

 long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals j no loreal, pra?frontal in 

 contact with the second and third labials ; one prajocular, 

 not in contact with the frontal ] two postoculars ; temporals 

 small, scale-like, 3 + 4; nine upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth, in seventeen rows. Ventrals 235, strongly 

 angulate laterally ; anal entire ; subcaudals 83, in two rows. 

 Pale brown above and below (bleached ?), each scale with a few 

 yellowish dark-edged dots ; upper lip brown, with yellowish 

 dots ; a band of yellowish vermiculations along each side of 

 the head, from the nostril to the nape, passing through the 

 eye ; belly with yellowish dots and a few square blotches of 

 yellowish, wide apart, and each involving five or six ventrals. 



Total length 940 millim. ; tail 170. 



A single female specimen, in the Copenhagen Museum. 



Bufo stomaticus, Liitken. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, blunt, with strong 

 canthus rostralis and concave loreal region j interorbital space 

 flat or slightly concave, a little broader than the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, vertically oval, its greatest 

 diameter about two thirds that of the eye. First finger longer 

 than second ; toes three-fourths webbed, with single subarti- 

 cular tubercles ; two rather strong metatarsal tubercles ; no 

 tarsal fold. The tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the 

 eye. Upper parts rough, with irregular warts ; parotoidi 

 large and fiat, nearly as long as their distance from the end 

 of the snout, reniform. Brown above, spotted or marbled 

 with darker, uniform dirty white below. Male with a sub- 

 gular vocal sac and black nuptial asperities on the two inner 

 fingers. 



From snout to vent 63 millim. 



Five specimens were submitted to me by Prof. Liitken : — 

 Adult male and female (the types), believed to be from 

 Assam ; two young from Calcutta ; and one young from the 

 Hughly. 



