20 Catalogue of Reptiles. 



FAMILY GHARIALID.E. 



GHARIALIS, Geoffroy. 



4. G. Gangetica, Geoffr. 



a. adult stiiffecl. 



h. c. young ditto. , 



d. skin of adult in a bad state 



e. /. veiy young, in spirit. ...... 



</. h. young stuffed. 



i. skull of adult, 29.75 inclies. ..... 



j. skull of adult, 29.50 ditto 



k. L skulls of young animals, in 

 bad state. 



I concur with Col. Cautley's remarks in As. Res. XIX, page 32, on 

 the folly of perpetuating a misnomer. " The present mode of writing 

 this word " GaviaV appears to have originated in a mis-reading of the 

 manuscript of some naturalist, the r and v being very similar in form. 

 As " Ghm-idV is the correct native name, there seems no reason for 

 perpetuating the misnomer." 



SECT. B. SQUAMATA. SCALED REPTILES.* 



OEDER SAURIA, 



FAMILY VARANID^. 



PSAINIMOSAURUS, Fitzinger. 



5. P. sciNCUS, Merr. 



a. adult stuffed, Nubia. Dr. Ruj^pel. 



body 14 tail 18 = 32 in. 

 1). young, in spirit. Salt Range. W. Theobald, Junr. 



VARANUS, Merrem. 



6. V. flavescens. Gray. 



a. h. adults stuffed. Lower Bengal. 



Body 16.00, tail 19 = 35. 



c. half grown ditto. ,, 



J. ditto ditto. A. C. Carlyic, Esq. 



e. ditto yellow spotted. 



/. ditto, in spirit. 



