MISCElvIvANEA. 

 REPTILES AND BATRACHIA. 



A COLOUR \^ARiETY OF Typhlofs braminus.—A peculiar Ty-b/v- 

 lops was brought to me some months ago by one of the Museum 

 servants, who had caught it in Calcutta. Thinking that it prob- 

 ably, represented a new species, I sent it to Mr. G. A Boulen<^er 

 for description. He tells me, however, that he beheves it to^be 

 T braminus. The whole of the body is of a bright bluish grey 

 which m life was almost blue, the head and the tip of the tail 

 being white. A similar specimen was recently sent to the Museum 

 from Sirsiah, Mozufferpore, Bihar, by Mrs. Bergtheil, but has un- 

 fortunately been mislaid. 



N. Ann AND ALE. 



Reptiles and a Batrachian from an island in the Chilka 

 Lake, Orissa.— In August, 1907, the Museum Collector Mr R A 

 Hodgart spent a week on Gopkuda Island, which lies about a mile 

 and a half from the shore in the ChiUca Lake, a large, shallow lagoon 

 recent y (from a geological point of view) separated from the Bay of 

 Bengal on the coast of Orissa. The lake is not completely shut 

 ott from the sea, for a narrow channel still persists ; during the 

 rains the water is rendered brackish by the large am^ount of fresh 

 water brought into it by the small streams that terminate in the 

 lake but during winter it becomes much Salter. The following 

 reptiles and frog were obtained on Gopkuda Island by Mr R A 

 Hodgart : — 



I. Emyda vittata, Peters. 



Three half-grown specimens from the shores of the island 

 As I have already pointed out {Journ. Asiat. Soc. Benml 1006' 

 p 203), this form is no more than a race of E. granosa, Schoepff ' 

 the typical form of which apparently replaces it in the valleys of 

 the Ganges and the Indus. Two of the three specimens have an 

 irregular reticulation of narrow dark lines on their carapace-a 

 common feature of the form-and all have longitudinal dark lines 

 on the head and neck. 



2. Hemidactylus frenatus, D. and B. 



A single male with two longitudinal rows of pink spots on the 

 ventral surface of the tail. The species occurs all over Bengal. 



3. Hemidactylus brookh, Gray. 



A single male with fourteen praeanal pores— not an unusual 

 number — on either side. 



