130 Stoliczka — On new Beptilia, etc. [Jtjit, 



averaging about 1,000 feet in height ; rare, according to Dr. Waagen. — It 

 is most probable that Theobald's specimen was from the same locality, as 

 he had visited the Saltrange prior to the time, when he presented the type 

 of this species to the Asiat. Soc. Musemn. 



Ophidia. 



15. Zamenis tenteimactjlatus. Vide ante, p. 82. 



Saltrange, and Mt. Sirban near Abottabad, at an elevation of nearly 

 6,000 feet. 



The adults are occasionally coloured uniform olive, with fine longitudi- 

 nal dark stripes along the scales, becoming better visible, when the epidermis 

 is slightly injured ; head marbled with dark, without bands ; ante- and post- 

 ocular region and cheek yellow ; below yellomsh, with or without lateral 

 dark spots on the ventrals. One specimen measures 51 inches, the tail being 

 12*5 inches ; ventrals 214, and sub-caudals 130. 



This is probably the same snake which Jan more recently described 

 as Zmnenis persicus, and which, Giinther says, is ' probably = Z. Cliesnei.^ 

 (Zool. Eecords 1867, p. 140). 



16. Tropidois-otus plattceps. (Comp. J. A. S. B., xxxix, Pt. II 

 p. 191). Marri, (Western Himalaya, about 6,000 feet). 



17. Halts Himalataj^xjs. Occurring with the last. 



Batrachia. 



18. Eatsta ctanophltctis, (ante, p. 102.) 

 Marri, (Western Himalaya, about 6,000 feet). 



19. Eana vicina, n. sp. 



Habit moderately slender, with very long limbs. Skin smooth, at the 

 sides and posteriorly with few scattered, small, tubercles ; below, entirely 

 smooth. Snout obtuse, considerably longer than the breadth between the 

 eyes ; canthus rostralis rounded ; nostrils an oblique slit, almost nearer to 

 the eye than to the point of snout. Tympanum quite indistinct. Tips of 

 fingers and toes distinctly swollen, rounded, not flattened ; toes fully 

 webbed, the webs reaching to the tips of the toes, but they are distinctly 

 emarginate. Tongue broadly ovate, slightly emarginate posteriorly. Vome- 

 rine teeth in two small groups, the distance between them being equal to 

 that between one of them and the respective choana, the opening of which is 

 about equal in width to one of the groups of teeth. 



The colour of the single adult specimen is, above, ashy olive, with the 

 tubercles on the body whitish, a narrow dusky band between the eyes ; a 

 black, somewhat interrupted stripe from the pale tip of the snout to the 

 eye, skirting the edges of the eye and continuing as a broader band to the 

 shoulder ; lip black, hind-limbs, above, with numerous transverse dark bands 

 (five being on the femur) ; front and hinder sides of both limbs, involving 



