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a. Gangetic sub -province. 



b. Deccan sub -province. 



c. Bengal sub-province. 



d. Madras sub-province, including Northern Ceylon. 



3. The Eastern Bengal province. This belongs in a great 

 measure to the Indo-Chinese fauna. 



4. The Malabar province — Southern Ceylon and all the Western 

 Coast of India, with the so-called "Western Ghats, as far north as 

 Bombay. Part of the fauna peculiar, the rest Indo-Chinese and 

 Malay in its affinities. 



A few of the Reptiles characteristic of each province, are men- 

 tioned. 



The writer proceeds to notice some reptiles and frogs collected 

 in parts of Central India in S. E. Berar, Chanda, Raiptir, Bilaspur, 

 Udaipur, and Chota-Nagpur. They are the following — 



1. Mnys [Pangshuva] tectum, Bell, var. intermedia. A form 

 intermediate in character between Pangshura tectum, Bell, and 

 P. tentoria, Gray, and apparently connecting the two. It cannot 

 be distinguished as a separate species. 



2. JEmyda vittata ? Peters. 



3. Trionyx gangeticus, Cuv. 



4. Cabrita Leschenaultii (M. Ed.). 



It is shewn that writers have hitherto probably been in error 

 in confounding Cabrita brunnea of Gray with Lacerta Leschenaultii, 

 M. Ed. They differ from each other in the character of the nasal 

 plates. 



5. C. Jerdoni, Bedd. 



The characters of the nasal plates are again distinct from those 

 of the other two species, being similar to those in Eremias. The 

 three, however, appear to form a good genus. 



6. Ophiops [Gymnops] microlepis, n. sg. and sp. 



The new sub-genus Gymnops, is characterized by having the 

 nostril between two swollen shields, one above, the other below, 

 with a small post-nasal. There are no eyelids. 



0. microlepis has the head shields smooth, not rugose, the ante- 

 rior frontal single, post-frontals without any intervening plate, 

 occipitals small, each nearly equal to the fourth part of a post- 



