PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
FourtH SERIES 
Vor. III, pp. 49-56 DECEMBER 20, 1909 
NEW AND PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED SPECIES 
OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM 
THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA 
BY 
JOHN VAN DENBURGH 
Curator of the Department of Herpetology 
The herpetological fauna of the island of Formosa has 
been represented in museums by but few specimens, and our 
knowledge of it has been correspondingly fragmentary. It 
has been, therefore, a source of much pleasure recently to re- 
ceive from this island a collection of some two thousand speci- 
mens, beautifully prepared and carefully labeled as to locali- 
ties. This collection is of extreme interest since, in addition 
to the species previously recorded from Formosa, it in- 
cludes many species not hitherto known to occur in this island. 
Some of these are already known from examples secured 
either in the Riu Kiu Islands, to the north, or from continental 
Asia. Others, including a representative of a new genus, 
are new to science. 
This paper is intended merely as a preliminary record of 
the new and unrecorded species. A more complete report 
upon the collection must await further study. 
December 20, 1909 
