196 S. Kurz — Notes on a few new Oaks from India. [No. 3, 



20. Teopidonottjs hydeus. — Eastern Turkestan. 



21. T. platyceps. — Mari and Kashmir. 



22. Tapheometopuh lineolatum. — Eastern Turkestan. 



23. VlPEEA OBTUSA. 



V. Enphratica, Martin, P. Z. S., 1838, p. 82. 



V. obtusa, Dwigubsky, teste Strauch Mem. Acad. St. Pet. XXI, No. 4, p. 221. 



24. Halys Himalayanus. — Mari and Kashmir. 



AMPHIBIA. 

 BATRACHIA. 



1. Eana cyanophlyctis. — Between Mari and Kashmir. 



2. Diplopelma caenaticum. — Tinali between Mari and Kashmir. 



3. Bufo yieidis. — Kashmir ; Eastern Turkestan ; Wakhan. 



4. B. calamita ? — Kashmir. 



XVI. — Notes on a few new Oalcs from India. — By S. Kuez. 



(With Plate XIV.) 



(Received Sept. 30th;— Eead Nov. 4th, 1875.) 



Some time ago I received, through the kindness of Capt. J. Waterhouse, 



two acorns collected by Capt. W. Gr. Hughes, Deputy Commissioner of 



the hill-districts of Arraean. They were obtained in the hills of Arracan 



at some 5000 or 6000 ft. elevation and proved interesting, the one as being 



a full-grown acorn of Quercus mespilifolia, a species previously known 



only from Ava and Prome and which I have hitherto considered (see 



Flora, 1872, p. 398) to be only a variety of Q. semiserrata, but which I must 



now acknowledge as an entirely distinct species ; the other as being 



a young specimen of a new species of which a full-grown cluster of 



acorns from Assam exists in the Calcutta Herbarium. I have in vain 



tried to obtain either flowers or leaves of this species from the Khasya Hills, 



and, consequently, am compelled to name and describe it solely from 



the fruit. I have to do the same in the case of to Q. olla, another new 



species from Assam. The figures, however, will, I hope, assist in their future 



identification. I take this opportunity of giving descriptions of a few 



other new species collected by myself and others in the Sikkim Himalaya 



and Burma. 



1. QUEECTTS 3YL0CAEPTJS, nov. sp., PI. XIV, Figs. 5—8. 

 Fructus per 2 — 3 in massam irregulariter obovoideam 1 — 2 poll, in dia- 

 metro connati ; nuces apice tantum liberse, depresso-globosse, leeves ; cupula? 

 dum immature nuces omnino includentes demum circulariter apertee et nucis 



