140 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor ts 
though closely related to others of the genus found on crows and 
ravens, is a well-marked one. 
Nitzschia minor, Kellogg and Paine. Specimens taken from the 
Swift Cypselus affints (Calcutta). The species was described in 1914 
from specimens from the same host taken in the same locality and 
included in the earlier sending from the Indian Museum. 
Laemobothrium titan, Piaget. Male, female and young speci- 
mens from a Baza, Baza jerdont (Kurseong, E. Himalayas) . 
V. L. KELiLocG and S. NAKAYAMA, 
Stanford University, California. 
REPTILES. 
An abnormal specimen of Naia bungarus, Schleg. 
Dr. Boulenger in the ‘‘ Fauna’’ volume on “ Reptilia and 
Batrachia’’ shows a rhomboidal shield, in between the occipitals 
anteriorly in fig. I14 on page 390, but in the description he says 
that the parietals are followed by a pair of large shields (occipi- 
tals), no mention being made of this shield. 
Major Wall has also in his book on the ‘‘ Poisonons Snakes of 
India and how to recognize them ’’ (1913) shown the partetals 
followed by a pair of large occtpitals; and he says that these 
(occtpitals) are in contact with one another throughout. 
Sir J. Fayrer, K CS.I., in the ‘“‘ Thanatophidia of India ’’ 
does not show any shield in between the occtfitals which are 
shown in contact throughout. In some specimens examined the 
condition is exactly as shown by Wall or Fayrer, but in the singular 
specimen about which this note has been written the condition is 
exactly as shown in fig. 114, on page 390 of the ‘“‘ Fauna”’ volume. 
BAINI PARSHAD, B.SC., 
Government College, ) Alfred Patiala Research Student , 
Lahore. J Zoological Laboratory. 
BATRACHIA. 
A South Indian Flying Frog: RHACOPHORUS MALABARICUS 
(Jerdon). 
(Extract from a letter). I have the honour to state that 
I have collected a specimen of a flying tree-frog near Sagar, a 
place in the Malnad forest regions, or the Western Ghats por- 
tion, of Mysore Province, some twenty miles from the famous 
Gersoppa Falls. I happened to catch it in this way. I was 
collecting and photographing natural science specimens in the 
locality for my College. As I approached a big tree with my 
camera, my attention was suddenly drawn by a rustling noise 
in the leaves above and, as I looked up, I found a beauti- 
fully coloured little animal having all the appearance of a small 
bird, falling from the top of the tree in a slanting direction. Its 
flight was curious, inasmuch as it did not flap its ‘“‘ wings’’. All 
