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ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



NOTE ON THE B03JALOPS1DJE IN THE SOCIETY'S 



COLLECTION. 

 By Mr. James A. Murray, Curator, Karachi Museum. 



In August last I had the pleasure of examining a good part of the Society's 

 collection of reptiles, and among them the specimens (six in numher) of 

 the Homalopsidte, described in No. I of the Society's Journal by the 

 Rev. F. Dreckmann. The specimens were correctly referred to the Homalopsida3, 

 but were not assigned to any group evidently owing to the difference in the number 

 of scales round the body. The other characters agreed quite with those of tbe 

 genus Ferania, and I had no hesitation in identifying the specimens as Ferania 

 Sieboldi, (Schbg.,) on finding that the specific characters of tbe only species known 

 also agreed. When Dr. Gray founded the genus Ferania (Zool. Misc., p. 67), he 

 had but a single specimen from Province Wellesley in Bengal, and one with only 

 twenty-seven series of scales round the body. Lieutenant Barnes has done good 

 service in unearthing several more specimens, and thus being the means of bring- 

 ing about an amendment of the generic characters of one of the four genera, 

 constituting the group of Homalopsidas, having no nasal appendage and more 

 than five upper labials. The generic characters of Ferania, as now amended, 

 will shortly stand as under : — < 



Snout without appendage ; more than five upper labials ; two anterior 

 frontal s ; scales in 27—31 series. 



One species, F. Sieboldi, (Schbg.,) characters as described in Gunther's 



Reptiles of British India, p. 284 ; scales in 27 — 31 series. 



J. A. M. 



LIST OF BUTTERFLIES RECEIVED FROM MAJOR YERBURY, 



Campbellpue, Punjab. 



