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Dipsas Forsteni occurs at Pankabaree, base of Sikkim hills. 
D. heaagonotus, Bl., is not identical with D. multifasciata, Bl., as 
suggested by Dr. Anderson. 
D. bubalina is common in the low valleys of Sikkim. 
D. trigonata from Qualior. 
Leptorhytaon jara is not considered to be generically distinct from 
Lycodon. 
Hypsirhina enhydris has sometimes 23 rows of scales. 
Trimeresurus Andersoni of Theobald is quite distinct from 7. 
monticola with which it was wrongly identified by Dr. Anderson. 
It is an Andaman species, and allied to 7. porphyraceus of Blyth. 
[This paper will be published with illustration in the Natural 
History Part of the Journal for the current year }. 
5. NovTEs oN NEW OR LITTLE KNowN Inp1an Lizarps, 
by Dr. F. SrouiozKa. 
(Abstract.) 
After some preliminary remarks, the author gives notes on the 
following, known or new, species :— 
LacErTIDé. 
Tachydromus sexlineatus, and the allied species Z. meridionalis, T. 
Haughtonianus* and T. septemtrionalis.—Ophiops Jerdoni, Blyth, = 
Pseudophiops Jerdoni = Ps. Theobaldi and? = Ps. Beddomei of 
* The naming of this species was the cause of a most unjustifiable attack 
by Dr. Anderson upon Dr. Jerdon, as recorded by the former in the Proc. of the 
Zool. Soc. of London for 1871, p. 156. Ido not wish to repeat that presump- 
tuous statement, which has justly elicited the indignation of naturalists at home ; 
but areference to p. 72 of the Society’s Proceedings for February 1870 will shew, 
that it was I who originally gave that information to Dr. Jerdon, as recorded by 
him (1. cit.). The specimen, for which the new name was proposed, was received 
during my temporary tenure of the office as Curator of the Indian Museum, and 
as such I thought it right in communicating the information to Dr. Jerdon, whom 
I knew to be engaged in the preparation of a monograph of the Indian Reptiles. 
A few points of minor importance in the identification of the species have been 
afterwards compared by Dr. Jerdon, with the knowledge of one or the other 
of the officers of the Museum. The name Haughtonianus has been adopted by 
Jerdon on my suggestion.—Of all this Dr. Anderson should, or might, have been 
aware. But if he wishes to style himself a “ Director” of the Museum, why should 
he be so anxious to apply Dr. Jerdon’s statement “ with the concurrence of the 
Curator’ to himself? The monopoly of naming and describing specimens in a 
“public Museum, which Dr, Anderson appears to claim as his exclusive right, has 
fortunately not yet been made law in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. 
