i^90 Mr, G. A. Boulenger on Indian and Malayan 



A single specimen from Bodanaikanur, Travancore, pre- 

 sented to the Jiritish Museum by Mr. H. JS. Ferguson. 



GONYOPHIS, gen. nov. 



Maxillary teeth twenty -three, equal ; mandibular teeth 

 subequal. Head distinct from neck, elongate ; eye mode- 

 rate, witli round pupil. Body elongate, a little compressed ; 

 scales feebly keeled, with apical pits, in nineteen rows ; 

 ventrals with a suture-like lateral keel, and a notch on each 

 side corresponding to the keel. Tail long \ subcaudals in 

 two rows, keeled and notched like the ventrals. 



A single species — GonyopJus margaritatus [Gonyosoma 

 margaritatum^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 578, and Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, iii. 1872, p. 39, pi. v. tig. 3). 



The type is from Borneo ; I have examined a large male 

 specimen from Singapore, which formed part of the Raffles 

 Museum, and is now preserved in the Indian Museum, Cal- 

 cutta. It has 230 ventrals and 115 pairs of subcaudals ; its 

 colour is green above, with black borders to the scales, 

 yellowish beneath, with the shields black-edged ; hinder part 

 of body and tail with bright orange rings. 



G. margaritatus combines the general characters of Coluber 

 with the ventral scutellation of Dendrophis. 



Zaments fasciolatuSf Gthr, 

 Has been found at Gwalior by Mr. C. Maries. 



Rana Hosii^ sp. n. 



Vomerine teeth in two strong oblique series extending 

 posteriorly much beyond the level of the hinder edge of the 

 choaiia\ Head slightly longer than broad; snout as long as 

 the diameter of the orbit, subacuminate, feebly prominent ; 

 canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region oblique and deeply 

 concave ; nostril nearer the end of the snout than to the eye ; 

 interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 very distinct, half the diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes 

 moderately elongate and expanded at the end into large disks, 

 those of the outer tingeis as large as the tympanuin ; tirst 

 tinger not extending beyond second ; toes webbed to the ilisks ; 

 subarticular tubercles well developed ; inner metatarsal 

 tubercle elliptic, feebly prominent ; no outer UK-tatarsal 

 tubercle. The femoro-tibial articulation reaches the axilla, 

 the tibio-tarsal beyond the end of the snout. Upper ])arts 



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