12 No. 1, 



A List of the Beptilian Accession to the Indian Museum, Cal- 

 cutta, from 1865 to 1870, with a description of some new 

 species, — ly John Anderson, M. D., F. L. S. & F. Z. S. 



[Received 28th October, read 2nd November, 1870.] 



The accompanying list is a rough record of the number of species 

 and specimens of Eeptiles, added to the Indian Museum during the 

 last four and a half years, with an enumeration of the localities from 

 whence they were obtained. The Museum is especially indebted 

 to Messrs. Jerdon, W. T. Blanford, Stoliczka, Theobald, Gammie, 

 Peal, Godwin-Austen and Haughton for many valuable donations. 

 The Museum collectors who have visited many parts of India 

 during the above period, have also largely contributed to the 

 collections in this Department. Two hundred and fifty-five species 

 have been received during these four and a half years and about 

 60 of them are either new or recently described species. They 

 illustrate 113 genera and number in all 1768 specimens. 



A great deal, however, remains yet to be done, before sufficient 

 materials will have been brought together for the full and exhaus- 

 tive illustration of the distribution and variation of the Reptile 

 fauna of our Eastern possessions, &c, and it may not be out of place 

 to indicate here the localities from whence Heptiles are most re- 

 quired. Chief among these are, the North "Western Provinces, 

 Marwar, Bikaneer, Sind, the North "Western Himalaya, Assam, 

 the Ivhasi Hills, Arakan and Burmah, Southern India and Ceylon, 

 especially the four last mentioned localities. 



Much has yet to be learned regarding the frogs, lizards and land 

 and fresh water tortoises, and more especially of the smaller species 

 of the two former groups. 



The new species described in these pages have been received 

 during the above period. 



SciNCID^3. 



Euprepes novem-carinatus, n. sp. 



Supranasals form a suture behind the rostral. Eyelid scaly. 

 Prefrontals, postfrontals and vertical meet in a point. Seven upper 



