1877.] LIEUT. -COL. BEDDOME ON REPTILES FROM MADRAS. 685 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Madras Presidency. 

 By Lieut. -Colonel E. H. Beddome, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received June 25, 1877.] 



OlIGODON TRAVANCORICUM, 11. Sp. 



Belly with quadrangular black spots. Scales in seventeen rows ; 

 labials seven (the sixth does not enter the labial margin), one loreal, 

 one anteocular, two postoculars ; temporals l-f-2. Head with sym- 

 metrical black markings ; a black band over the postfrontals and 

 vertical, descending through the eye ; and another black band de- 

 scends to corner of mouth. Body brown, with about twenty-nine 

 nearly regular cross bars of black edged with white, each being the 

 breadth of two scales. 



Hub. South-Travancore mountains, 3000 feet elevation. 



A single specimen only was found ; the position of the sixth labial 

 away from the labial margin is probably not constant. Dr. Giiuther 

 states that it occurs in Simotes venustus ; but in two specimens of 

 that -Snake now in my collection it is excluded in one but not in 

 the other. 



Gymnodactylus jeyporensis, n. sp. 



Of stout form. Body covered with large hexagonal or nearly 

 square scales in only about eighteen rows across, a few about the 

 vertical line being a little reduced in size ; scales of the belly smaller 

 and rounded behind, in about thirty series across. Head covered 

 with small, bead-like, rounded scales ; upper labials ten, the last two 

 very small ; lower labials seven, the last minute ; median lower labial 

 large, pointed behind, with a large pair of chin-shields behind it ; 

 subcaudals larger than the scales of the belly. Tail with two 

 tubercles on each side close to the vent ; pupil elliptic ; opening of 

 the ear subhorizontal. Colour of a light grey, irregularly blotched 

 with dark brown ; head with small blotches ; nape with two large 

 lunate blotches, one behind the other; body with three 8 -shaped 

 blotches, which, however, do not meet, and smaller intermediate 

 markings ; tail irregularly blotched. 



Length Sj inches ; no femoral nor praeanal pores. 



Hab. Jeypore hills. 



A single example was captured in a wood on the top of the 

 Patinghe hill, 4200 feet elevation. In coloration somewhat like G. 

 collegalensis (mihi) ; but that species has fine granular scales, in 

 about fifty series across the back. This is a larger and stouter 

 species, with more the facies of a Euhlepharis, but without eyelids. 



BUFO TRAVANCORICUS, n. Sp. 



Crown flat, without any bony enlargement ; snout triangular, pro- 

 jecting ; canthus rostralis not very distinct ; first, second, and third 

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