1913- Proc.Zool.Soc. London 1913 : 1Q19-3B , figs . 174--178 



pis. 102-108 



ox COLOMBIAN BATRACHI^S AND REPTILKS. 1019 



59. On a Collection of Batrachians and Reptiles made hy 

 Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell, F.Z.S., in the Choco, Colombia. 

 By G. A. BouLENGEu, F.R.S., F.Z.S.* 



[Received October: lOtli, 1913 : Read November 11th, 1913.] 



(Plates Cll.-CVIII.t and Text-figures 174-178.) 



Index. 



Page 

 Geographical Zoology ; Choco, Colombia, Batrachians and 



Reptiles 1019 



Development: Jjuvvil oi Si/la batidinii 1023 



Ethology : Nesting-habits of Agalijchnis spurrelli 1024 



Variation : Dendrobates tinctorius 1026 



New species : CcBcilia intermedia 1020 



„ palmeri 1021 



Bufo liypomelas 1022 



Agalychnis spurrelli 1024 



Dendrobates faraensis {Pava, MxA'/AY) 1028 



„ awrotcenia 1029 



Cinosfernum spurrelli 1030 



Anolis breoioeps 1031 



Anadia vittata 1033 



Somalucranium coralliventre 1035 



JSlaps microps 1036 



Leptognathns spurrelli 1036 



Dr. Spurrell, to whom the Zoological Society is indebted for so 

 many interesting additions to its collection of Reptiles, has now- 

 transferred his activity as a collector from West Africa to South 

 America. The series of beautifully presei'ved Batrachians and 

 Reptiles brought together by him during the first few months 

 of his stay in the Choco, Colombia, and presented by him to the 

 British Museum, is one of great interest and shows how much 

 remains to be done in the exploration of that part of South 

 America. Unless otherwise stated, the specimens are from 

 Pefia Lisa, Condoto, altitude 300 feet, Within the last few 

 years, series of Batrachians and Reptiles brought together by 

 Mr. M. G. Palmer in the same district had been acquired by the 

 Trustees of the British Museum and fui-nished the types of 

 several new species described by me %■ They showed a close 

 agreement with the fauna of N.W. Ecuador, for a knowledge of 

 which we are indebted chiefly to Mr. Rofsenberg § — an agreement 

 which is furtlier exempli tied by Dr. Spurrell's collection. 



* Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



t For explanation of the Plates see p. 1038. 



X Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 19G8, p. 515, and vii. 1911, p. 19. 



§ Bouleiiger, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 107, and Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) ix. 1902, p. 51. 



