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three are indigenous. One of the three is very nearly related to forma 

 on the nearest mainland ; the second has Malabar affinities ; and the 

 third Madagascan. The Andamans have three Agamids : Two are 

 endemic ; the other is a common Indian garden species, but is very local 

 in the Andaman Islands. Of Varanidae, the only species is Indo-Malajan. 

 Of the Skinks the Andamans have several species. One of these occurs 

 down the east side of the Bay of Bengal ; one is confined to the Anda- 

 mans and the remaining species have a distribution similar to that of 

 the Varanus mentioned earlier. 



The author describes Gonatodes Andersonii — a new species. 



The scales of the reproduced part of the tail, dorsal and ventral 

 surfaces, of Ptychozoon homocephalum are slightly smaller than those 

 on the uninjured part, and the dorsal tubercles are absent : also the 

 loose membrane is narrower, asymmetric and not lobed. This last point 

 is important, as MuUer had thought the lobes of specific importance. 



2. Vidyapati Thakur. — By NAGENDRANAxa Gupta, Communicated 



hy the President, 



(Abstract.) 



The paper contains facts relating to the life and work of this poet. 

 Some four hundred new poems have been obtained in one collection, and 

 they are pronounced genuine ; altogether some six or seven hundred poems 

 of his are known. He lived to a very great age ; but the exact dates 

 of his birth and death cannot be ascertained, though the day of the 

 month on which he died is known. He was appointed Raj Pandit in 

 an age of Pandits, and showed untiring activity through his life. In a 

 village near Darbhanga is preserved a very valuable manuscript of his 

 poems which has been examined, 



3. The Occurrence of an Aquatic Glow-worm in India, — By N. Annan- 

 dale, B.A. 



Until recently the Lampyridse were regarded as purely terrestrial 

 and aerial beetles. The great abundance of fire-flies on the banks of 

 Oriental rivers and swamps, especially in wet weather, and the fact 

 that most glow-worms (generally the larvae of fire-flies) seem to affect 

 damp situations, have led me to doubt whether this is the case in a 

 considerable number of tropical forms, regarding the life-history of 

 which nothing is known. In 1899^ I first observed and collected an 

 aquatic larval glow-worm at Patalung in Lower Siam, and I was able 

 to confirm the observation at the same place in 19022. At the begin- 

 ning of November, 1904, I brought some water- weeds from a tank in 

 the suburbs of Calcutta, and among their roots I subsequently found 



1 P.Z.9. 1900, pp. 862-865 iPascic. Malay. Suppl, 1903, p. xiv. 



