20 NOTE ON AN UNL»E£CRIBED HAH.UOrsJDA. 



Plants and Drugs of Sine! — (Murray). 



Timber Trees of India — (Balfour), 



Flore Forestiere de Cochin Chine — (Pierre). 5 parts.- 



Icones Plantar urn— (Wight). Vols. II, to VI. 



GENERAL. 



Zoological Atlas — (Brehra). 



Museum of Natural History. 



Vertebra ta of Sind — (Murray). 



Cassels' Natural History. 



Naturalist's Wanderings in the China Seas — (CoIIingwoodJ. 



The Calcutta Journal of Natural History. 7 Vols. 



Beeton's Dictionary of Natural History. 



Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago — (Forbes). 



Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals — (Huxley). 



The Asian — Vols. I. to VI. 



Odontography— (Owen). 



.Lectures on Comparative Anatomy — (Owen) 



NOTE ON AN UNDBSCRIBED HAMALOFSIDA. 



By the Rev. F. Dheckmann, s.j. 

 Figured on stone bxj Mr. R. A. Stemdale. 



This specimen was forwarded to the Society from Saug'or, Central 

 Provinces, by Mr. H. Craufuird Thomson. 



Head short, thick, broad, distinct from neck; cleft of mouth turned 

 upwards behind; eyes s-mai'l with round pupil; nostrils on the upper 

 surface of the head in a single large nasal shield, the outer part of which 

 is divided by a groove running outwards from the nostrils; the two 

 nasals contiguous; two small anterior f rentals; two loreals, one above 

 the other, the lower one larger than anterior frontals,, the upper one 

 small, vertical, longer than broad, five-sided — one praeocular, two 

 postoculars; 8 upper labials rather high, the 4th entering the orbit; 

 temporals, 1 + 2-f-D-O; anterior chin shields in contact with four 

 lower labials; posterior ehin shields small, scale-like; sis transverse 

 series of scales between chin shields and first ventral. Scales smooth 

 33; ventrals narrow, 158; anals and sub-caudals bifid. Sub-caudals, 

 54; ground colour yellowish white, with 32 large irregular rounded 

 black spots, leaving a narrow stripe of ground colour between them; 



