X.— R E P O R T'S ON A COLLECTION OF 

 BATRACHIA, REPTILES AND FIvSH 

 FRO]\I NEPAL AND THE WEvSTERN 

 HIMALAYAS. 



By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. ; N. Annandai^e, D.Sc. ; F. Wai.1., 

 Major, I.M.S., C.M.Z.S. ; and C. Tate Regan, B.A. 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



The specimens from Nepal recorded in these Reports were 

 collected by Mr. R. Hodgart on behalf of the Indian Museum, which 

 is much indebted to Major J. Manners-Smith, V.C, CJ.E., Resident 

 in Nepal, for the assistance given. The specimens from Kumaon 

 were collected at the same season as those from Nepal (in 

 September and October, igo6) by myself, while those from the 

 Simla district were obtained by a native collector and myself in 

 April and May, 1907. The Nepalese localities mentioned are, for the 

 most part, not to be found on any map. They are situated either 

 in the neighbourhood of Katmandu, the capital of the state ; in 

 the Little Nepal Valley, which lies between that in which the 

 capital is situated and the outermost range of hills ; or in the 

 Terai or sub-Himalayan plain. Only one or two specimens come 

 from the last district, the majority being from the first. The 

 specimens from Kumaon represent only two localities, Bhim Tal 

 and Naini Tal, situated respectively at 4,500 and 6,400 feet ; while 

 the Reptiles and Batrachia from the Simla district were caught, 

 within fifty miles of the town, between 5,000 and 9,000 feet, 

 mostly at 5,000 and at 8,000 feet. — N. Annandai^e. 



BATRACHIA. 

 By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 

 I. Leptohrachium monticola, Gthr. 

 Locality — Soondrijal, Nepal. 



2. Bufo melanosHctus , Schn. 



Localities — Chitlong and Soondrijal, Nepal ; Bhim Tal and 

 Naini Tal, Kumaon ; Kathgodam, foot of the Kumaon hills. 



[This is the common Toad m the Nepal Valley, from which 

 there are other specimens in the Museum, and in Kumaon up 



