AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF THE JAMES SIMPSON-ROOSEVELT ASIATIC EXPEDITION BY KARL P. SCHMIDT The James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition of Field Museum of Natural History in 1925-1926, while not expecting to secure extensive collections of cold-blooded vertebrates, brought back seventy specimens of amphibians and reptiles, which include fifteen frogs and toads, forty lizards, and fifteen snakes. Twenty-two specimens came from the Allapalli Forest near Chanda, Central Provinces, India; twenty-one from Kashmir (including the province of Ladakh), and twenty-seven from Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan). A number of interesting systematic notes presented themselves in the course of the identification of this material and a small skink from the Allapalli Forest appears to be new. I have, accordingly, drawn up an annotated list of the collection. Field Museum of Natural History is indebted to Dr. Thomas Bar-bour, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, for the loan of specimens of Gymnodactylus for study in connection with this material. AMPHIBIANS 1. Bufo melanostictus Schneider. Common Indian Toad. Allapalli Forest, near Chanda, Central Provinces, India, Dec. 30, 1925, one specimen. 2. Bufo viridis Laurenti. Green Toad. The localities represented are: Nubra Valley, Kashmir, May 1925, two specimens; Sanju, Sinkiang, July 1925, three specimens; Kivas, Sanju River, July 4, 1925, one specimen; Bora, Bora River, July 7, 1925, one specimen; 'Plains of Sinkiang,' 1925, one specimen. Stomach contents include numerous caterpillars, apparently of a single species; diptera; beetles; ants; and miscellaneous insect remains. Without extensive material for comparison, which is not at hand, the separation of this form from the European species does not seem war-167
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