MISCELI.ANEA. 



REPTILES. 



The occurrence of the Taukte' Lizard {Gecko verticillatus) 

 IN Calcutta. — In Boulenger's volume on the Reptiles and Batra- 

 chians in the Fauna of British India the distribution of Gecko 

 verticillatus is given as " Eastern Bengal to Southern China and the 

 Malay Archipelago," while Anderson, in his account of the Reptiles 

 of Upper Burma and Yunnan, says that it is found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Calcutta. It has taken me two years to obtain de- 

 finite confirmation of the latter record by obtaining a specimen, 

 although Rai Bahadur R. B. Sanyal, the Superintendent of the 

 Calcutta Zoological Gardens, tells me that it is not uncommon in 

 certain large and shady trees in these gardens, in which several 

 specimens have recently been captured for exhibition to the public. 

 My own specimen was taken by my assistant, Mr. C. Vaillant, in 

 another part of the suburbs. The species differs very greatly in 

 its habits in different localities ; for while in Bangkok and in some 

 parts of Burma it is common inside even brick dwelling-houses, in 

 the northern part of the Malay Peninsula it is practically confined 

 to the trunks of palm trees in the village groves, and in Calcutta 

 it is extremely shy and wary, hiding itself in the densest foliage. 

 In Singapore, from which several specimens are recorded, the 

 species appears to have been introduced accidentally, probably on 

 ships, as it does not occur in the southern part of the Malay 

 Peninsula, and it is very possible that its occurrence in Calcutta is 

 equally fortuitous. 



N. AnnandaIvE. 



The distribution of Kachuga sylhetensis. — This tortoise 

 appears to have been recorded hitherto only from Assam, but a 

 specimen was brought me last winter at Rajshahi, a place situated 

 in the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam but lying almost 

 due north of Calcutta. This extends the known range of K. syl- 

 hetensis considerably further to the west. 



N. Annandale. 



BATRACHIA. 



The distribution of Bufo andersoni. — This toad appears to 

 occur over the whole of northern peninsular India as well as in 

 Arabia, although the localities given by Boulenger, viz., Agra, 

 Rajputana and Sind, are all towards the north-west, in which 

 it is most abundant. I recently took a specimen at Rajshahi in 

 Eastern Bengal and there is another in the Indian Museum (quite' 



