and Bufo stomaticus. 463 



My best thanks are due to Professor Liitken 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 prefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds as 

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

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; 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-metatarsai articulation reaches the 

 eye. Upper parts rough, with irregular warts ; parotoids 

 large and flat, 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. 



