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3 pairs of small chin shields ; 27 to 31 rows of small lengthened 

 ovate tuberculated or ridged scales, increasing in size towards the 

 ventrals, those forming the last row on either side being largest ; 

 ventral scutre 207, anal undivided; snb-caudals 114, single. Length 

 of specimen, 26£ inches, the tail being 7£. Colour a dusky plumbe- 

 ous above, white below. 



Some of the characters of this remarkable species approximate it 

 to the Dendropluda : its somewhat depressed head, long thin neck, 

 compressed bod} r , and long tail, scales increasing in size towards the 

 ventrals &c. ; in the character of the shields of the head, and of the 

 scales of the body, it resembles certain Homalopsidce, and its short 

 blunt head has an appearance of some of the Ambit/ cephal idee, and 

 it has the single sub-caudals of Cercaspis and Amblycephalus. 

 I shall not attempt now to refer it to any family, but leave that for 

 the future. 



I obtained a single example of the very rare Xenurelaps bungu- 

 roides, Flaps bunguroides of Cantor, of which only one specimen 

 is known, the type example in the Museum at Oxford. My 

 specimen is a rather smaller one, being 15 inches, of which the tail 

 is 2£. It has 224 ventral scutae and 44 sub-caudals, and 13 to 15 rows 

 of scales on the body. It only differs from G ii n t h e r ' s description 

 by having one white intercepted line commencing on the vertical, 

 and extending to the throat on each side. When alive, the color of 

 the body was a deep rich madder-brown, and the bands were 

 yellow, paling posteriorly. The chin and throat are whitish, which 

 passes into red, gradually deepening on the posterior part of the 

 body and tail, and there are numerous oblong black marks on the 

 abdominal and sub-caudal centres. 



The number of anurous Batrachians noted by me in my paper 

 formerly alluded to, from Southern India, was 28. Of these, two are 

 doubtful, as distinct from allied species, viz., Rami nilagirica from 

 R. gracilis, my R. agricola, and Pyxicephalus fodiens from P. brevis, my 

 P. pluvialis. Of the other supposed new species named there, three 

 have been described byGiinther under different names, and Major 

 Beddome and myself have obtained these, and all the other sup- 

 posed new species, with two exceptions, which I doubt not will yet 



