MISCELLANEA. 



MAMMALS. 



A suBFossii. bat's skulIv from Rodriguez I. — [In the 

 late Dr. J. Anderson's Catalogue of the Mammals in the Indian 

 Museum (pt. I, p. loo; 1881) a subfossil bat's skull from the 

 Rodriguez Island is referred to Pteropus rodricensis. As some 

 doubts were felt as to the correctness of this identification, the 

 specimen was recently sent to Dr. Knud Andersen, who reports 

 on it as follows.] 



** The subfossil Pteropus skull from the island of Rodriguez 

 is that of a Pteropus niger (not, as believed by the late Dr. John 

 Anderson, the widely different Pt. rodricensis). 



" For two reasons this specimen is of more than ordinary 

 interest : — First, because the species is said now to be very rare, 

 if not actually extinct ; second, because (so far as I am aware) it 

 was hitherto known from Reunion and Mauritius only, so that 

 this would mean to be the first record from the more outlying 

 island of Rodriguez. 



" The skull is that of an aged individual, whereas that 

 figured in Cat. Chir. B. M., 2nd edition, I, p. 217 is subadult 

 only." 



Knud Andersen. 



REPTILES. 



A LIST OF THE REPTII^ES OBTAINED BY Mr. H. STEVENS IN 



Upper Assam and the Eastern Himalayas.— Apart from a 

 lizard, Gymnodactylus khasiensis, Jerdon, obtained at Dejoo, North 

 Lakhimpur, Upper Assam, and a frog, Rana liehigii, Gthr., from 

 11,500 ft. altitude at Sandakpho (Nepal-Sikkim frontier), the 

 species represented in the small collection submitted to me for 

 identification belong to the Ophidia. 



1. Typhlops diardi, Schleg. 



Dejoo ; Silonibari; base of Dafla hills, Upper Assam. 



2. Tropidonotus parallelus, Blgr. 



Maikola valley, East Nepal, 7000—10000 ft. 

 Two specimens, & (V. 196 ; C 102) and 2 (V. 172 ; 



C. 86). 

 The former is remarkable for the high number of ventral 



and subcaudal shields. Back olive-green, sides brown, 



the light dorso-lateral band scarcely indicated ; sides 



of ventral and subcaudals red. 



