The Tasmabaz Thugs seem to be identical with the 'Megpunnia' (_N.I.N.& Qu._, vol.i, p.

108, note 721, September 1891).
General Hervey records seven modern instances of strangulation by Megpunnia Thugs in Rajputana (_Some Records of Crime_ (1867), vol.i, pp.

126-31)..