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Title: Spolia Zeylanica 18(2).
Description: Colombo, The Colombo Museum, 1934. Small 4to (24.7 x 18.6 cm). 90 pp., several plates and fine text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = Rare single volume of the most important natural history journal of Ceylon (= Sri Lanka), containing five papers on the herpetology of the island, and a few other papers. The herpetological papers are: A. M. Smith and P. E. P. Deraniyagala A new genus of Gecko (two pp., two fine text illustrations); and four papers by the second author, namely Some phylogenetic features in the leathery turtle Dermochelys coriacea (eight pp., two plates, two text figures), Relationships among loggerhead turtles (Carettidae) (three pp., one plate with two photos)", Corselet reduction in some testudinates (19 pp., 15 fine text illustrations), and Some new fossorial skinks of Ceylon (three pp., one text figure). A very good, clean copy.

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