1914.] Miscellanea. 319 



one of the lateral margins the threads are particularly numerous 

 and extend to a great length, in some cases to about 180 mm., 



notwithstanding the fact that the}^ are closely matted and twisted 

 together. 



Of the 9 eggs the measurements of the largest and of the 

 smallest egg-capsule are as follows : — 



Maximum length 

 Maximum breadth 

 Maximum thickness 

 Length of matted threads 



REPTILES. 



Three rare Himai^ayan lizards. — Thanks to the generosity 

 of Col. Tytler, R.E., and Major F. Wall, I.M.S., the Indian Museum 

 has recently received specimens of three rare lizards from the 

 Western Himalayas. The}^ are Alsophylax himalayensis, Annan- 

 dale, Gymnodactylus lawderanus, Stoliczka and Acanthosaiira major 

 (Jerdon). 



Alsophylax himalayensis. 



Annandale, Rec. hid. Mus. IX, p. 305, pi. xv, fig. i, (1913). 



This lizard was recently described by myself from a single 

 female specimen taken in the Simla Hills at an altitude of about 

 5000 ft. Major Wall has still m.ore recently sent us a male from 

 Almorah, taken at about the same altitude. It is rather darker 

 and greyer than the female and has the markings on the dorsal 

 surface denser. The tail is more distinctly swollen and there is a 

 prominent tubercle on its ventral surface at each side a little 

 behind the vent. There is, however, no trace of praeanal pores— a 

 feature that seems to differentiate the lizard from the male of any " 

 other species in the genus, from the general facies of which A. 

 himalayensis is, indeed, somewhat divergent. 



Gymnodactylus lawderanus. 



Col. Tytler has just sent us a specimen of this rare gecko 

 which he took in July at Konsanie in Kumaon at an altitude of 

 6000 ft. So far as published records go, this is only the second 

 specimen known, but Major Wall informs me that he has recently 

 presented one or more to the British Museum. Col. Tytler' s 

 specimen is unfortunately mutilated, but it retains the basal part 

 of the tail, which was deformed in the type. In his key to the 

 Indian species of the genus in the " Fauna " (p. 60) Dr. Boulenger, 

 relying on the original description and figures, includes G. lawderanus 

 among those species which do not possess a lateral fold, and states 



