ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

We are grateful to Dr. K.C. Jayaram, Chennai for invaluable suggestions during discussions. We acknowledge the financial assistance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. We thank the officials of Karnataka Forest Department and Karnataka Power Corporation Limited, Government of Karnataka for co-operation during the field investigation. We thank the Director and colleagues at ZSI, Southern Regional Station, Chennai for the support in identification of specimens. Suresh S., Vishnu D. M., Karthick B. and Ravindra assisted in specimens collection and Saveer Ahmed in digitizing mouth portion of specimens.