68 Records of ihc Indian iMiiscittn. [^^OL. XIV, 



Type-specimens. — Male No. 18594 ; female No. 18593, Zoological 

 Survey of India {Lnd. Mus.). 



The male type is from Fort Stedman on the Inle Lake, altitude 

 3,000 feet ; the female from a small stream from the He-Ho plain 8C0 

 feet higher. 



This tortoise is largely aquatic in habits, sitting at the edge of canals 

 and other bodies of water and diving to the bottom when disturbed. 



I have examined a large series of adults of the typical form of Cyclemys 

 dhor from different parts of Burma and from the Khasi and Garo Hills 

 in Assam. In none of them is the hinge of the plastron obliterated in 

 the way in which it is in the Shan specimens, although some of the shells 

 are evidently those of aged individuals in which the growth-lines on the 

 shields have been entirely worn away. In an old living specimen from 

 the Garo Hills recently examined, the hinge, though still represented 

 on the shields by an open suture, was quite immovable. The typical 

 form shows the same sexual difference in shape of shell, but its colour 

 seems to be invariably paler than in the Shan form. 



BATRACHIA. 



The season of our visit was a very bad one so far as the collection 

 of Batrachia was concerned. The frogs and toads of the Shan Plateau 

 undergo a longer period of hibernation than the mildness of the climate 

 would seem to justify were it not that most of them are tropical species. 

 They were only beginning to arouse themselves from their winter sleep 

 in March and as a matter of fact we did not see a single adult batrachian 

 in the Inle basin. Several tadpoles were, however, found in small hill- 

 streams running into the lake and we obtained specimens of one frog, 

 a common and widely distributed form, lioth at He-Ho and some four 

 hundred feet higher at Thamakan. 



Rana kuhlii, D. and B. 



miT. HfUKi ktihlii. Smith, Jovru. Nai. Hist. Soc. Siam TT. p= 2G2, pi.—, fies. 

 1, }a, Ih (larva). 



Tadpoles of this species were abundant in streams at Hsing-Dawng 

 and near Fort Stedman. I have identified them by comparison with 

 specimens sent me from Siam by Dr. Malcolm Smith, who has just 

 described the larva in the Journal of the Natural History Society of 

 Siam. It is clear from his investigations that the tadpole^ I assigned 

 provisionally to this frog recently was incorrectly identified. 



The species is widely distributed in southern Asia east of the Bay 

 of Bengal. 



Rana limnocharis, Wiegm. 



Frogs from the Shan States belong to the typical form of the species 

 but are rather small ; I saw none more than 45 mm. in length from snout 

 to vent. The spec'mens we found at Thamakan were in a well and 

 seemed to be in a half torpid condition. I believe that I heard frogs 



^ Annandale, Mem. As. Soc, Bengal VI, p. 147 (1917;j. 



