1914-] Miscellanea. 271 



It is a very active animal, moving at a very rapid rate on 

 land though thoroughly aquatic, and swimming very quickly in 

 water. 



Damonia hamiltonii (Gray). 



Boulenger, Fauna, p. 84 : Siebenrock, p. 476. 



This form has been recorded from Bengal, Punjab, and Upper 

 Sindh. A single specimen of this was obtained from Makhu. It is 

 at present in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 One thing to be particularly noted about this form is the large 

 number of round yellow spots on the cornea. 



References to Literature. 



1. Annandale,N. '' Miscellanea/' Rec. Ind. Miis. I, 1907. 



2. ,, " The Indian Mud-Turtles (Trionychidae)," 



Rec. Ind. Mus. VII, 1912. 



3. ,, '' The Aquatic Chelonia of the Mahanaddi 



and its Tributaries," Rec. Ind. Mus. 

 VII, 1912. 



4. ,, '' The Tortoises of Chota Nagpur, Rec. 



Ind. Mus., 1913. 



5. Boulenger, G. A. Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhyncoccpha- 



lians, and Crocodiles in the British 

 Museum. London, 1889 



6. , , Fauna of British India, ReptHia and Batra- 



chia, London, 1890. 



7. Siebenrock, F. " Synopsis der Rezenten Schildkroten," 



Zool. Jahrhucher. Jena, 1909. 



Baini Parshad, B.Sc. 



Range of Acanthodactylus cantoris, Giinther. — The range 

 of the genus Acanthodactylus, Weigmann, as given by Boulenger 

 in the Fauna of British India, Reptilia and Batrachia, is as follows : 

 "South of Spain and Portugal; Africa, north of the equator; 

 South- Western Asia, eastwards to the Punjab ; " and that of the 

 species Acanthodactylus caiitovis is " North-Western India from 

 Agra to Sind, Baluchistan, South-Western Persia". Thus it 

 appears that Boulenger specially excludes the Punjab from the area 

 in which this species is found. But I found it in the following 

 places in the Punjab : Lahore, Abohar, Dharamkot and Nathana 

 in the Ferozpore district, and in JuUundher. 



The colouration of the specimens obtained from various locali- 

 ties did not differ very much and quite corresponds to the descrip- 

 tion given by Boulenger. except that in some specimens the white 

 and black longitudinal lines alternating with each other become 

 rather indistinct. In one of the specimens from Lahore there 

 were two tails one above the other, these appeared to have grown 



