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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES BNHS for encouragement, Mr Vithoba Hegde September 17, 1996 ALOYSIUS G. SEKAR for assistance in the field, BNHS for financial Herpetology Section, assistance and the forest officials in Satara, Bombay NaturalHistory Society, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg forest division for Hornbill House, Shaheed BhagatSingh Road, their kind cooperation. Mumbai 400 023 References Annandale,N.(1919):Thefaunaofcertainsmallstreams Frost,D.R.(1985):AmphibianspeciesoftheWorld.Allan in the Bombay Presidency. Rec. Ind. Mus. 16: 109- Press Inc. and The Association of Systematics 161. Collection,Lawrence,Kansas,pp732. Boulenger,C.A.(1920):AmonographoftheSouthAsia, Ravichandran, M.S.&R.S. Pillai(1990): Amphibiaof Papuan,MelanesianandAustralianfrogsofthegenus Maharashtra with description ofa new species of Rana. Rec. Ind. Mus. 20: 1-226. Torrenttoad,Ansonia. Rec. Zool. Surv. India86(3& Daniel, J.C. (1974): Fauna in Maharashtra State 4):505-513. Gazetteers. Edited by B.G. Kunte. Govt, of Sekar,A.G.(1991):DistributionoftheAmphibianfauna Maharashtra,pp 1-423. ofIndia.J. Bombaynat. Hist. Soc. 88: 125-127. Dutta,S.K.(1992):AmphibiansofIndia:Updatedspecies Yazdani,G.M.&A.Mahabal(1976):AmphibiaofPoona. listwithdistributionrecord.Hamadryad17: 1-13. Newl. Zool. Surv. India2(4): 138-139. 20. RANGE EXTENSION IN UPERODONGLOBULOSUS(GUNTHER 1864) IN ASSAM Uperodon globulosus (Gunther 1864) is a represent a range extension by ca. 135 km fossorial microhylid occurring in India and northeast, the previous easternmost point of Bangladesh(IngerandDutta 1986,Khan 1982). distributionbeingMandakata(91°47' E, 26° 17' InIndia, itisdistributedinAssam,WestBengal, N)inKamrupdist. InAssam,thespeciesisfound Orissa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, along the floodplain from Kokrajhar dist., upto Karnataka and Goa (Daniel 1963, Inger and Sonitpur dist., on the north bank of the Dutta 1986, Dutta 1997). In Assam, it was Brahma—putra, and only a single record (Chanda reported from Kamrup, Nalbari, Barpeta and 1994) Jalukbari has been reported from the Kokrajhar districts (Chanda 1994, Sengupta south bank. unpublished data). globulOosnusJwuenree6c,oll1e9c9t8edafrpoamirBiosfwaUnpaethroPdlaoinn August 21, 1998 P.CMH.OUBDAHRUURAYH (93° 25' E and 26° 45' N, Sonitpurdist., at2015 S. SENGUPTA h. from a low-lying temporary waterlogged Zoology Department, grassland around a perennial pond. Both were Arya Vidyapeeth College, mature females (SVL 6.7 and 6.9 cm). These Guwahati-781'016. Assam. ReferENCES Chanda,S.K.(1994):Anura(Amphibian)ofNorthEastern House,Bhubaneswar,Orissa. India.Mem. Zool. Surv. India8: 1-143. Inger, R.F. & S.K. Dutta (1986): An overview ofthe Daniel,J.C.(1963):FieldguidetotheamphibiansofWestern amphibian faunaofIndia.J. Bombaynat. Hist. Soc. India.PartII.J. Bombaynat.Hist.Soc., 60:690-702. 83: 135-146. Dutta, S.K. (1997): Amphibians ofIndia & Sri Lanka Khan,M.A.R.(1982):WildlifeofBangladesh.A.checklist. (Checklist & Bibliography). Odyssey Publishing UniversityofDhaka,Bangladesh. JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORYSOCIETY, 96(1), APR. 1999 157