From the Daily California Dec.4,1936. Student Makes Discoveries of New Species Oriental Beetles, Amphibians, Reptiles Uncovered by University Zoologist New species of Oriental beetles, reptiles and amphibians have been discovered by Linsley Gressitt 37, student in entomology and zoology, who made several trips to Formosa, Hainan island, Japan and China. He has collected over 250,000 in- sects, 15,000 plants, 1,500 reptiles and amphibians, besides fish, spiders, mammals and miscellaneous other animals. He is classifying the beetles, and the reptiles and amphibians, which are in his own collection. The beetles number over 100,000 speci- mens, and among them he is study- ing particularly the "long-horn beetles, of which he has named over one hundred new species. During his travels in the interior of Hainan, he climbed three of the highest mountains there where no white peo- ple had travelled before. SNAKES STUDIED "A new species of snake belonging to the garter snake group was dis- covered on Hainan island in the South China sea. It is not poisonous, and lives in the mountains. It is marked somewhat like a poisonous snake, and rattles its tail and spreads its head when disturbed. Another new species of another garter snake genus was caught in southeast China. It lives in mountain streams and probably feeds on frogs. A new species of green lizard living on trees and bushes was discovered in For- mosa. There are few salamanders in the tropics. A new species peculiar for the bright orange color on its under- side, was found in a mountain stream in Kwantung province in southeast China. It has smooth skin and a sword-like tail with fringes. Poi- sonous snakes, including several cob- ras, pit-vipers, kraits, and sea-snakes, were brought back from the Orient. Some of the pit-vipers are green and live in trees, being hard to notice be- cause of their protective coloration; others are terrestrial and some look very much like rattle-snakes, though they have no rattler. BEETLES CAUGHT Most of the beetles, reptiles and amphibians were caught by nets of different kinds. Others were bought from the natives. The reptiles and amphibians are kept in the Califor- nia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, while most of the insects other than beetles have been sent to specialists at Harvard university, Cornell uni- versity, the British museum and other museums in Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland. "Snakes are classified according to the number and type of the rows of scales on the head and body, their teeth, and markings. Salamanders are differentiated by the texture of their skin, size of their eyes, length of their snout, legs and toes, and" their shape and color," Gressitt said. Snakes feed mostly on frogs, small mammals, fishes, or other snakes. Chief factors which contribute to the formation of different species are the geographical conditions including climate, habitat, food and the de- velopment of the animals, he de- clared.