NOTES AND LITERATURE. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Gardiner's ** Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes,’’ Part II.! — 
This second part contains ten “reports.” The first, by F. F. Laidlaw, 
deals with the Amphibia and Reptilia. Allbutone of the species are 
abundant in Ceylon, and the exception, Lygosoma albopunctatum, is a 
lizard that is widespread in the Oriental region. For most of the 
species the region in question is near the western limit of its area of 
distribution. Only two Amphibia are listed, a Rana and a Bufo ; 
four lizards, two Hemidactyli, a Calotes, and the Lygosoma; bos 
snakes; one species of Testudinidæ (Nicoria and two marine 
turtles (Chelone). 
The Lepidoptera are listed by E. Meyrick. "There are sixty-seven 
species, of which practically all occur also in India or Ceylon. A 
single species of Notarcha, regarded as new, replaces the widespread 
LV. multilinealis. 
Mr. A. E. Shipley has enumerated the six species of Echiurodea 
and nineteen sipunculoidea. The former belong to the genera 
Bonellia and Thalassema, characteristic of the warm and temperate 
seas. A new genus of sipunculids, Lithacrosiphon, allied to Aspido- 
siphon, is described and figured. 
The land and fresh-water mollusks are treated by E. A. Smith. 
He says: * The present collection comprises eight land and two 
fresh-water forms from the Maldives, and four terrestrial species 
from the Laccadives, three of which are included among those 
from the Maldives. The latter group, judging from the collection at 
hand, does not possess a single indigenous species, all the forms 
occurring either on the Indian peninsula or in Ceylon or other locali- 
ties. As many plants are introduced into the islands by foreign 
vessels, some or all of the Mollusks there may be accounted for by 
importation. The list includes Succinea vitrea, known elsewhere only 
from Calcutta and Bombay; a new species, Sifa/a vagata, probably 
1 The Fauna and Geography id the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, etc. 
Edited by J. Stanley Gardiner. Cambridge, University Press, 1902. Vol. i, pt. ii, 
PP- vi, 119-222, Pls. VI-XIII, fes 24-40. 
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