. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 8, p. 14 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1999. Figure 1. The neotype of Barkudia melanosticta (ZSI 20627). Bar = 20 mm. 1921; also ZSI 22540, collected from the type locality on 5 July, 1961), and from adjacent Nandan Kanan Biological Park (20° 13'N; 85° 50'E), Cuttack Dis- trict, Orissa State (Biswas and Acharjyo, 1980), little is known of its biology (see Murthy, 1990a; 1990b). Ganapati and Nayar (1952) reported Barkudia insu- laris from Waltair (17° 44'N; 83° 23'E; close to Visa- khapatnam:
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 8, p. 14 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1999. Figure 1. The neotype of Barkudia melanosticta (ZSI 20627). Bar = 20 mm. 1921; also ZSI 22540, collected from the type locality on 5 July, 1961), and from adjacent Nandan Kanan Biological Park (20° 13'N; 85° 50'E), Cuttack Dis- trict, Orissa State (Biswas and Acharjyo, 1980), little is known of its biology (see Murthy, 1990a; 1990b). Ganapati and Nayar (1952) reported Barkudia insu- laris from Waltair (17° 44'N; 83° 23'E; close to Visa- khapatnam: 17° 42'N; 83° 18'E), Andhra Pradesh State, Southeastern India, at a distance of circa 300 km to the southwest of the type locality of B. insu- laris, and Ganapati and Rajyalakshmi (1955:279) noted that the type of the species was reported lost. Several subsequent publications (, Murthy, 1990a; Pillai and Murthy, 1982: Sanyal, 1993; Sanyal et 1993; Subba Rao, 1996) uncritically accepted the Waltair locality and listed the Andhra Pradesh locality for the species, although both Tikader and Sharma (1992) and Welch et al. (1990) omit this southern record. The recent rediscovery of the holotype of B. insularis by Das and Dattagupta (1997), permits an examination of this and additional material and a comparison with material from Waltair reveal that the Andhra Pradesh material is not conspecific with B. insularis. This paper redescribes the Southeast Indian material and designates a neotype. Material and Methods The following measurements were taken with dial vernier caliper (to the nearest mm): snout-vent length (SVL; from tip of snout to vent), tail length (TL; from vent to tip of unregenerated tail), tail width (TW; measured at base of tail); head length (HL: dis- tance between angle of jaws and snout-tip), head width (HW; measured at angle of jaws), head depth (HD; maximum height of head, from occiput to throat), body width (BW; greatest width of body), eye dia
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