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94. DAPHNELLA SANDWICENSIS. 
Shell ovate; spire short, smooth or obsoletely striated, slightly 
granulose at the sutures; aperture long, open, base subtruncate, 
white, stained with chestnut-brown ; body-whorl ornamented with 
reticulated lines of same colour ; apex reddish brown. 
95. DAPHNELLA MACULOSA. 
Shell elongate fusiform, transversely and longitudinally finely 
striated, giving the surface a granulose appearance; aperture long ; 
base subtruncate. Colour white, ornamented with broad, interrupted 
longitudinal lines of a reddish brown. 
7. CoNTRIBUTIONS TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE REPTILES OF 
THE Himataya Mountains. By Dr. ALBERT GUNTHER. 
(Reptilia, Plates XXV., XXVI., XXVII., XXVIIL) 
The following paper has been suggested by a collection of Reptiles 
made by MM. Hermann, Adolphe and Robert von Schlagintweit 
during their scientific mission to India and High Asia from 1854 to 
1858, and submitted by those gentlemen to my examination. The 
value of the collection is highly increased by very accurate state- 
ments of the localities and altitudes at which each specimen was ob- 
tained, and which were kindly communicated to me for this paper. 
This is the first information of the kind we have received on the 
Reptiles of the Himalayas, and it is of the utmost importance, since 
it not only augments our knowledge of the vertical distribution of 
these animals, but embraces a larger number of facts, respecting the 
altitudes at which species of reptiles are known to exist in the dif- 
ferent mountainous systems of the globe, than the whole-of our pre- 
vious information on the subject. I, however, have thought it ad- 
visable to take this opportunity of giving at once a complete list of 
the Reptiles known to inhabit the Himalayas, and to collect also those 
notes referring to them, which, if deficient in statements of the alti- 
tudes, yet give much information as to their horizontal distribution. 
In doing this, I have gathered my information from British collec- 
tions and publications only, not finding the slightest data on the sub- 
ject in foreign works treating of the physical history of these moun- 
tains. One of the chief resources for this list has been a collection 
made by Dr. J. Hooker in Sikkim and Khasia, partly described by 
Dr. J. E. Gray (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 386), and 
partly by myself in my Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes. Finding a 
great congruity between the species obtained in the Khasia Hills and 
those collected by MM. von Schlagintweit at considerable altitudes 
in the Himalayas, I have not hesitated to admit the former into the 
list, although every other information on their habitat is wanting. 
But I have not admitted the numerous species mentioned by Dr. 
Cantor and others as bemg found in Assam ; they were evidently col- 
