Reptiles and Batrachians from the Island of Nias. 389 



with distant, ill-defined, black cross bars. Ventrals 147, 148, 

 150 ; caudals 23, 22, 22. 



*12. Pseudorhabdion longiceps (Cant.). 



13. Simotes lahuanensis^ Gthr. 



*14. Simotes octolineatus (Schn.). 



15. Oligodon trilineatus (D. & B.). 



16. Tropidonotus trianguligerus^ Boid. 



17. Tropidonotus clirysargos^ Boie. 



*18. Hypsirhina albomaculata, D. & B. 



*19. Zapyrus fuscus^ Gthr. 



20. Ghrysopelea ornata (Shaw). 



21. DendropMs picta (Gm.). 



22. DendropMs caudolineata (Gray). 



23. Dryopliis prasina^ Reinw. 



*24. Ophites subcinctus (Boi^). 



*25. Ophites alhofuscus (D. & B.). 



An adult specimen measures 177 centim. Uniforna 



blackish brown above, white inferiorlj. Ventrals 238 j 



caudals 155. 



26. Callophis intestinalis (Laur.). 

 27. Bothrops formosus (Schleg.). 



BATRACHIA. 



1. Rana macrodon^ Kuhl. 



*2. Rana nicohariensis (StoL). 



Hylorana nicohariensis, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, xxxix. 

 p. 150, pi. ix. fig. 2. 



Yerj closely allied to R. alticola^ Blgr., from which it is 

 distinguished by the rather longer toes, the length of the foot 

 nearly equalling that of the tibia. In R. alticola the foot 

 measures about three fourths the length of the tibia. A single 

 specimen, obtained from the stomach of a snake. 



*3. Rana erythrcea (Schleg.). 



*4. Callula baleata (Miill.). 



5. Bufo claviger^ Ptrs. 



*6. Ichthyophis glutinosus (L.). 



