Millardia meltada (Gray, 1837) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 1:586.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, S Mahratta, Dharwar .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; Indian Peninsula west to Gujarat and Rajasthan, north to Himachal Pradesh, and east to West Bengal; E Pakistan; and Terai region of Nepal (see Rana, 1985).

SYNONYMS: comberi, dunni, lanuginosus, listoni, pallidior, singuri.

COMMENTS: Cytogenetics of this species is the subject of a growing body of literature (Nanda and Raman, 1981; Raman and Sharma, 1977; Sobti and Gill, 1984; Yosida, 1978). Mandai and Ghosh (1981) described singuri as a subspecies of M. meltada .