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Page 57. Brachypus, add, Ventral shields smooth, in longitu- 

 dinal series, square ; dorsal and subcaudal scales 6-sided, in 

 rings, in alternating series; the lateral groove slightly impress- 

 ed in front, scarcely granulated. 



Page 57. Brachypus Cuvieri, add : — 



a, b. In spirits. West Indies. Presented hy T. Bell, Esq. 

 Chalcides terrestris, Guilding, MSS. 



Page 70. 5. Mocoa, add, Toes 5-5 ; and add 



5.* Carlia. Rostral erect, triangular. Palate toothed. Toes 

 4-5. 



Page 72, line 26, between above and thick, insert ; scales. 



Page 73, line 7, before armed add un : and erase the genus Lar- 

 della. 



Page 73, after Diploglossus, add : — 



27. Ophiodes. Body and tail cylindrical. Legs 2, posterior, on 

 side of vent. See pp. 120 and 99. 



Page 79, after Hinulia Whitii, add : — 



fff Dorsal scales large, in 8 or 10 senes. 



Richardson's Hinulia. Hinulia Richardsonii, Gray, ZooL 

 Erebus and Terror, t. 



Pale brown; body with 8 or 9, tail with 10 or 12 broad rather 

 irregular dark cross bands ; beneath silveiy ; the ears with 4 or 5 

 small slender denticulatious in front ; body rather elongate ; tail 

 elongate, subcylindiical, tapering ; temples with large shields ; 

 feet rather small. Like Plestiodon in habit, but has no supranasals. 



a. In spirits. Australia, H. Abrolhos. Presented by B. Bynoe, 

 Esq. 



Page 81. Mocoa melanopogon. This species should be referred to 

 a new genus, which may be thus characterized. 



5.* Carlia. 



Head subquadrangular. Rostral erect, triangular, convex. 

 Nasals lateral, nearly contiguous ; supranasal none. Palate tooth- 

 less. Ears oblong, toothed in front. Lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk. Body fusiform. Scales smooth. Limbs 4, moderate. 

 Toes 4-5, compressed, the two middle front elongate. Tail round, 

 tapering. 



The Black-chin]ned Carlia. Carlia melanopogon. 



Page 82, line 9, for interparietal led^^ frontoparietal. 



