October 31, 1914 
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Vol. XXVII, pp. 201-206 
PROCEEDINGS 
OP THE 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
ON SOME AUSTRAr.ASIAN REPTILES. 
BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 
During the autumn of 1913 Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark accom¬ 
panied the Carnegie Institution Expedition to Australia and to 
.some of the islands in Torres Straits. The following list is 
based upon Clark’s material. Most of the species are already 
recorded from the localities represented in this collection since 
the Rev. S. Macfarlane, long a missionary in the Torres Straits 
region, returned many collections to England which have fre¬ 
quently been mentioned by Guenther and Boulenger. The 
new python described in this paper is the more remarkable as 
coming from one of the Murray Islands, where collecting was 
extensively carried on by Macfarlane, and this find simply adds 
another instance to show how extremely fortuitous is all reptile 
collecting. 
LIST OF SPECIES. 
Amphibia. 
Rana papua Lesson. 
Two young examples from Kuranda,* Queensland, collected September 
(>, 1913. I have compared them with specimens of Rana papua of the 
same size from Manokwari and Sorong, New Guinea, and with larger 
specimens from Johi (Jappen) Island. I can find no characters which 
separate them. 
Hyla coerulea (AVhite). 
Three finely preserved examples from Mer Island, Alurray Islands, 
Torres Straits, agree with Var. A. of Boulenger (Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 
384) in having no lateral spots and the light line along the tarsus very 
inconspicuous. Since Boulenger’s siiecimens from the Murray Islands 
•Kuranria, which will be mentioned several times, is a station twenty miles inland 
from Cairns, North Queensland, at an elevation of 2000 feet. 
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