FASCICULI MALAY FUSES 
snake,” but, as Mr. Laidlaw^ has pointed out, the term ular kapak is of wide 
application, while the present species certainly shares the name of “ leaf axe- 
snake ” with Lachesis gramineus^ and probably with other forms that resemble 
leaves living or dead. The persons who brought us specimens of Ancistrodon 
rhodostoma denied that its bite was fatal, though they said that it made a man 
very ill. This is curious, as peasants, whether British or Malay, have usually 
a tendency to exaggerate the dangerous qualities of animals with which they 
are liable to come in contact, and I do not think there was any superstitious 
reason^ why they should speak no ill of this snake, for I asked them, on several 
occasions, after the specimen was dead and in spirit. They say that the “ leaf 
axe-snake ” lies about among dead leaves and is very sluggish, as its figure 
would suggest.’ 
APPENDIX 
List of the Batrachians and Reptiles Recorded from the 
Malay Peninsula, South of Tenasserim 
N umerous additions have been made to our knowledge of the 
Batrachians and Reptiles of the Malay Peninsula, since the publication 
of Capt. S. S. Flower’s useful list in the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society in 1896 (p. 856). A second list given by Capt. Flower, in 1899 
(pp. 600 and 885), is obscured by the fact that Siam is included. I therefore 
gladly fall in with the suggestion that a complete list should now be given, 
embodying the additions made by the ‘Skeat’ Expedition, the reptiles of which 
were described by Mr. F. F. Laidlaw {Proc. ZooL Soc. 1900, p. 883, and 
1901, i, p. 301, and ii, p. 575) ; and by the collections of Messrs. L. Wray 
and A. L. Butler, and described by me (^Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) v, 1900), 
and Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii, p. 333 (1900), or listed by Mr. Butler 
{Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, ii, p. 188). 
In this list the names of species not in Capt. Flower’s list of 1899 are 
marked with an asterisk (*). 
I. Proc, Zool. Soc, 1901 (2), p. 576. 
2 Cf. Fascic, Malay. Anthrop., part I., pp. 83, 104.1' 
