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Tate has described two species, A. nigricollus and A. 

 tasmanica, from Tasmania ; I have not seen specimens of 

 either of them. 



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XXXV. — Remarks on the Herpetological Fauna of Mount Kina 

 Baloo , North Borneo. By Gr. A. BOULENGER. 



The first Reptiles and Batrachians obtained on Kina Baloo 

 were described by me in 1887 *, four new species being esta- 

 blished. The specimens, which were the property of Mr. W. 

 Whitehead, did not find their way to the British Museum ; for 

 on his return home Mr. Whitehead disposed of them, together 

 with many others which he had collected in North Borneo and 

 Palawan, in favour of the Paris Museum. I am glad to say 

 that recently, through the kindness of Prof. Vaillant, dupli- 

 cate specimens from that collection have been received by 

 the British Museum. So that of the twelve valid new 

 species discovered by Mr. Whitehead on Mount Kina Baloo 

 as many as five are now represented by types or co-types in 

 the National Collection. Mr. Whitehead's collection of 

 Reptiles and Batrachians formed the subject of an extensive 

 paper by Dr. F. Mocquard f, in which numerous species and 

 two genera are described as new, and upon which I now beg 

 to offer some remarks. 



On receiving at the end of January of this year a copy of 

 Dr. Mocquard's paper, I wrote to the author that, whilst 

 regarding his Gymnodactylus baluensis, Hemidactylus cras- 

 pedotus, Ablabes prwfrontalisj Calamaria lateralis, Helicop- 

 soides typicus, Rhaeophorus acutirostris, Bufo fuliginosus, 

 B. spinulifer, Nectophryne misera, and N. maculata as valid 

 species, I entertained serious doubts respecting the others, 

 which I felt inclined to identify as follows : — 



Pelturagonia cephalum — Japalura nigrilabris, Ptrs. 

 Tropidonotus maculatus, var. torquatus=T. chrysargus, 



Boie. 

 Rana decorata = R. luctuosa, Ptrs. 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xx. pp. 95-97. 



t Nouv. Arch, du Mus. (3) ii. 1890, pp. 115-168, pis. vii.-xi. Prelimi- 

 nary diagnoses were published in ' Le Naturaliste ' for 1890. 



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