THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 80. AUGUST 1894. 



XIV. — On the Herpetological Fauna of Palawan and Balahac. 

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



In bis valuable paper, " On tbe Zoo-geogi-apbical Rebitiou- 

 sbips of tbe Island of Palawan and some adjacent Islands " *, 

 Mr. A. Everett bas sbown that Palawan, together with other 

 islands west of Mindoro Straits, should be regarded as forming 

 part of that district of the Indo-Malajan subregion to which 

 Borneo belongs, as its fauna has much more in common with 

 that of the latter island than with the Philippines proper. His 

 conclusions were derived from a study of the mammals and 

 birds. Of the reptiles and batrachians very little was known 

 at that time. A new snake from Palawan ( Callophis hilinea- 

 tus) had been described by Peters in 1881, a new toad by 

 myself in 1887 {Bufo j^hilippimnsis) , and a widely distri- 

 buted Agamoid lizard (^Calotes cristatellus) had been recorded 

 in the British Museum ' Catalogue of Lizards.' A list of 

 eight species has since been contributed by Dr. Mocquard 

 (Nouv. Arch, du Museum [3] ii. 1890). Thanks to an 

 important collection made for the British Museum by 

 Mr. Everett himself on Palawan and Balabac, we are now 

 able to draw up the following list of the species of reptiles 

 and batrachians represented on these islands. Mr. Everett's 

 conclusions are entirely confirmed so far as these classes of 

 animals are concerned. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 220, with map. 

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