A LIST OF THE REPTILES OE BORNEO. 43 



A List of the Reptiles of Borneo. 



By R. Shelf oed, b,a, (Cantab.) 

 Curator, Sarawak Museum. 



The following purports to be nothing more than a mere 

 list of the reptiles recorded as occurring in Borneo to date De- 

 cember, 1900. Doubtless a few species still await discovery, 

 seeing that so recently as March 1899, Dr. R. Hanitsch found 

 on that well-explored mountain. Kina Balu. a new gecko and 

 two new snakes, and that the collections made by Mr. E. A. \V. 

 Cox and myself on Mount Penrissen in the same month contained 

 also a new lizard* (Lygosoma Shelfordi Blgr.) : nevertheless the 

 herpetological fauna of the island may fairly be described as 

 being well-known, thanks largely to the admirable collections 

 formed in past years by the late Mr. A. H. Everett, the late Mr. 

 John Whitehead and by Dr. C. Hose, and the time appears ripe, 

 even if the need is not very pressing (though I have seen no list 

 pretending to such completeness as this since the publication of 

 Mocquard's Recherckes sur la faune herpetologique des isles de 

 Borneo et de Palawan in the Nouvelles Archives du Museum 

 1890) for the production of such a list as this. 



I have not included the reptiles occurring in those zoogeo- 

 grapical dependencies of Borneo, the islands of the Natuha and 

 Palawan groups, as lists of these may be found in the Xocitates 

 Zoological and Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



References to the literature treating of the various species 

 have been reduced as far as possible. I have given as a rule 

 merely a reference to the British Museum Catalogues or to the 

 earliest published description of the species. 



In those cases where I have found that the colours of 

 living or newly dead specimens differ markedly from the pub- 

 lished descriptions, compiled apparently from faded spirit speci- 



* The new snakes described by Mr. Boulenger in the same paper together 

 with this lizard had been stored in the Sarawak Museum for several years, 

 unidentified. One, — Amblycephalus nuchalis — was redisco .-ered a few 

 weeks ago. 



