GOA 6 The American Naturalist. [October, 
2. A. boutonii pecilopleurus Wiegm. Peru: Pisacoma Is- 
lands; Puna Island, Gulf of Guayaquil; Sandwich Islands; 
Savage Island; Aldabra (Stejneger).” 
3. A. boutonii peronii Cocteau. Java; Timor; Timor Laut; 
Amboina; Fly River, New Guinea; Murray Island ; Islands of 
Torres Straits; W. Australia ; Tasmania, Fiji Islands; Samoa, 
and Society Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia. 
4. A. boutonii rutilus Peters. Fly River, New Guinea. 
5. A. boutonii metallicus Boulenger. North Australia. 
6. A. boutonii quinqueteniatus Günther. West coast of Africa. 
7. A. boutonii cognatus Bottg. Nossi Bé, Madagascar. 
8. A. boutonii gloriosus Stejneger. Glorioso Island.” 
The genus Lipinia is found on the Philippines, New Guinea, 
© Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Society and Sandwich 
Islands; Emoa in Pinang; on the Moluccas New Guinea, 
Admiralty, Duke of York Island, New Ireland; Solomon Is- 
lands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa Islands. Tahiti, 
Savage Island; Rarotonga and Carolines and one species in 
W. Africa. Ablepharus boutonii Desjard. shows a most interest- 
ing distribution. West-coast of Africa, Madagascar; Mauri- 
: tius, Comoro Islands, Glorioso Island, Zanzibar, Mozambique; 
—Java, Timor, Moluccas, New Guinea, Islands of Torres 
Straits, North Australia, West Australia, Tasmania; New Cale- 
donia; New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, and Society Islands, Savage 
Island, Sandwich Islands, Puna Island, Gulf of Guayaquil, 
Pisacoma Islands, Peru. 
The distribution of these genera is only to be explained by 
the former existence of an Indo-Pacific Continent. 
- The Distribution of the Hydrophide. 
This family is found in the Pacific; but in the Indian Ocean 
it only reaches west to the Persian Gulf." It is totally absent 
“ Stejneger, Leonhard. On some collections of Reptiles ana Batrachians from 
East Africa and the adjacent islands, recently received from Dr. W- L. EFT 
~ and Mr. William Astor Chandler, with descriptions of new species. Proc. © 
Nat. Mus., vol. XVI, p. 711-741. [No. 970]. Washington, 1893. _ 
“ Boulenger, G. A. Catalogue of Snakes. Brit, Mus., vol. ILI, p. 264-80. 
1896. 
