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characteristic) from Purneah. The species is very common at 

 Lucknow, where I found numerous adults and young, many of 

 the latter still with remnants of a tail, towards the end of April, 

 B. andersoni is the only toad which I have seen from the Simla 

 hills, in which, above 7,000 feet, the only common Batrachian 

 appears to be Rana vicina ; R. breviceps, R. cyanophlyctis and R. 

 limnocharis, occurring at lower altitudes. I have no informa- 

 tion how high the present species ranges, but there is a specimen 

 labelled Simla (the town, 7,000 feet ?) in the Museum, I did not 

 see it myself in the district, and natives of Theog (8,000 feet) told 

 me that the only frog (or toad) they knew lived in the water. 



N. Annandai^e. 



INSECTS. 



Note on Rutilia nitens, Macq. — Seven specimens of this bril- 

 liant Dexiid (including only one d ) in excellent condition were 

 captured by the Museum Collector at Phularia, Nepal Terai, on 

 May 5th, 6th and 7th, this year. The genus is the handsomest of 

 all the Muscidse and contains some of the largest species, eighteen 

 of which are recorded from the Orient, but only the present one 

 from India. It was not known hitherto from what part of India 

 R. nitens came. The specimens agree almost exactly with Macquart's 

 description. Rutilia is mainly an Australasian genus, but extends 

 to some of the East Indian islands. From Victoria and Queensland 

 I possess several splendid species of very large size, but at present 

 I have not attempted to identify them. 



E. Brunetti. 



Records of some Indian Cerambycid^. — The recent pub- 

 lication of Mr. C. J. Gahan's volume on the Cerambycidae in the 

 Fauna of British India has made it possible to identify some of the 

 more conspicuous specimens of that family lately acquired by the 

 Indian Museum. 



The large Acanthophorus serraticornis, Oliv., is recorded by 

 Mr. Gahan only from Southern India. It is, however, far more 

 widely distributed. In the Indian Museum Collection there are 

 specimens from Sikkim ; Nowgong ; Ramanad (South India) ; 

 Singhbhoom Forest, Chota Nagpur, where it has been reported to 

 be destructive to Sal {Shorea robusta) ; and also from the Andamans. 

 It is quite possible that this beetle may be found in any part of 

 India and also in Burma, although there are yet no records of it 

 from the latter country. 



Neocerambyx Paris, Wied., another comparatively large beetle 

 of the same family, is by the same authority recorded from Mysore, 

 Bangalore, Burma, Siam and Singapore. In November 1906 a 

 characteristic specimen was obtained in Calcutta by the Museum 

 Collector. The Indian Museum now possesses specimens from Cal- 

 cutta, Maldah and Bangalore. 



Lophosternus indicus, Hope, was obtained by me in May 1966 

 in the Purneah District. This is the only specimen yet recorded 



