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in July 1914. No results were apparent last year, and in the meantime 

 Captain Gharpurey's Note on the breeding habits of this snake appeared in 

 Vol. XXIII, No. 2, of this Journal, showing that the species was viviparous. 



The pair, nevertheless, was kept together, and early in June 1915 the 

 female became somewhat restless and was noticed to be making attempts 

 to get out of the cage. On the afternoon of the 9th June it voided seven 

 young, but on the following morning five had disappeared and had probably 

 been swallowed by another female snake of the same species which had 

 temporarily been confined in the same cage. The two remaining hatchlings 

 measured 8'1 and 8'3 inches respectively. One of them sloughed on the 

 15th June. 



E. A. D'ABREU, k.z.s., 

 Central Museum, Nagpuk, Assistant Curator. 



22n(l June 1915. 



No. X.—DRYOPHIS DI8PAR (GUNTH). 



The specimen was secured in grass land at an elevation of about eight 

 thousand feet on the Annaimalai Hills on the 29th April 1915. On dis- 

 section it was found to be a gravid female containing, besides a number of 

 undeveloped eggs, four fully -formed young ; these would have been born 

 very shortly. Evidently the snake is viviparous. 



The young were a very dark grey green almost black, and measured 

 eight inches in length. 



C. E. C. FISCHER. 



CoiMBATOKB, 



\st June 1916. 



No. XL— THE HABITS OF RAN A SEMIPALMATA, BOUL. 



On the 1st of May 1915 in the Annaimalai Hill I made the following note 

 of the above named frog : — 



The music of this little frog is peculiar and is accompanied by a curious 

 physical phenomenon. The skin below the throat is capable of extra- 

 ordinary expansion, and during the song is blown out into a bladder nearly 

 as large as the rest of the animal. There are no signs of this potentiality 

 when the beast is in repose or dead. The frog is arboreal. 



The song is uttered generally during the night, but may be heard during 

 the hours of daylight in the dense shade of evergreen forest. 



The song begins with a series of timed, metallic, squeak-like notes very 

 like the noise made by pressing the bottom plate of the small German tin 

 toy-frogs. While these single notes are being produced the gular skin 

 is being gradually inflated. When the bladder has been fully distended 

 into a thin semi-transparent membrane the full song begins. This sounds 

 like the rapid drumming of the finger-nails on a thin tin plate (from about 

 8 to 20 or more strokes) ending with one to four spaced strokes. This is 

 repeated at very short intervals ad infinitum, one frog answering another. 

 The membrane remains at full distension throughout. 



C. E. C. FISCHER. 



COIMBATOUE, 



\st June 1915. 



