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Reptiles. 



of a Rumex, which would not probably have seeded so early in 

 the year. 



The total number of specimens now known to have been killed, in 

 the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk alone, amounts to sixty-eight, as 

 will be seen by the subjoined table, including the more recent 

 examples : — 



' Norfolk, as J"' 1 ": 11 



' [ Females, 28 



Suffolk, 13 |^ ales ,' % 

 ' (females, 7 



68 68 



Henry Stevenson. 



Norwich, November 5, 1863. 



A List of the Formosan Reptiles, with Notes on a few of the Species. 

 By Robert Swinhoe, Esq., F.Z.S., F.G.S., &c* 



I procured at Formosa the following fifteen species of Reptilia, " 

 which have since been deposited in the British Museum. Dr. Glinther 

 has determined their species, and is describing the novelties in the 

 British Museum Catalogue now publishing. To that gentleman's 

 kindness I am indebted for the names. 



1. Emys sinensis, Gray. 



2. Trionix sinensis, Coregm. 



3. Cistoclemmys flavomarginata, Swinhoe. In the British Museum 

 there is a specimen of this species, brought home by Mr. Reeves from 

 Canton. I should think that it was more than probable that the animal 

 had been carried to that port in a junk, and is not indigenous to that 

 locality, for in Formosa I found it extremely local. It did not occur 

 in the south-west at all, but about Tamsuy, north-west Formosa, it 

 was the prevailing species. 1 frequently observed it in ponds about 

 the rice-fields, with its round back showing above the surface of the 

 water and its head peering out. At times several might be seen together 

 on the tops of stones in the water, basking motionless, with limbs 

 extended. On being alarmed they would shuffle off the stones with 



* Reprinted from the * Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' for September, 

 1863, and kindly communicated by the author. I have given the list entire, but have 

 omitted some of ihe more technical parts. — Edward Newman. 



