more coppery hue than in those figured in the British Museum 

 Catalogue, Vol. iv., pi. xi., representing P. castaneiventris (Verr.). 



DiccEUM iEXEUM, Fuchev. et Jacq. 



This handsome species was first described froin a female by 

 Hombron ^ Jacquinot, in Voy. au Pole Sud., pi. ii2, fig. 4, 1845, 

 under tlie name of Dicce bronze, and afterwards by Pucheran and 

 Jacquinot, Voy. au Pole Sud. Zool. p. 97 (1S53), as D. mneum. 



Dendrociielidon mystacea, Less. 



A peculiar and interesting form which seems to be dispersed 

 over the whole of the Solomon Islands, the Louisiades, Soutli- 

 eastern New Guinea, the New Britain Group, and also in the 

 Malay Arcliipelago. It nests in trees, much after the haljit of 

 the Wood-Swallows (Artaiims), and the nest is made of sticks 

 and twigs ; the eggs, 3 or 4 in number, are oblong, and white 

 without any markings. 



Part II. 

 By J. Douglas Ogilby. 

 Reptilia. 

 Crocodilus porosus, Helm. Unc immature example. 

 Geiiyra OCEAXICA, Lgss. One specimen. 

 tilECKO viTTATUS, llovM. Seven specimens. 

 Varanus indicus, Baud. Two specimens. 

 Corucia zebrata, Graij. One specimen. 

 Lygosoma smaragdinum. Less. Six specimens. 

 CYANURUM, Less. Two specimens. 

 cyanogaster. Less. Two specimens. 



Lygosoma striato-fasciatum, s}). nov. 



Habit stout ; the distance between the end of the snout and the 

 fore limb is contained once and two-fifths in the distance between 

 the axilla and groin. Snout short, obtusely rounded. Loreal 

 re-ion vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced between a 

 nalal and a supra-nasal the latter being the smaller. Fronto- 

 nasal one-fourth In-oader than long, forming an equally broad 

 suture with the rostral and tlie frontal ; prefrontals small ; 

 frontal heptagonal, the two posterior sides forming a right angle, 

 in contact with the two anterior supraoculars, and rather shorter 

 than the frontoparietals and parietals together ; four supraoculars, 

 the second slightly larger than the third ; eight supraciliaries, 

 the first the largest ; frontoparietals distinct, equal m length to 



