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lected in the plains of this country; and even those said to have 
been obtained from hills (their height is not stated) belong entirely 
to the lowland fauna. On the Reptiles inhabiting High Assam we 
have no information whatever. Another contribution to the Hima- 
Jaya fauna has been given by Mr. Blyth in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
vols. xxii. and xxili.*, containing an account of several Reptiles from 
Nepal and Sikkim. Some of the latter have been found by Capt. 
Sherwill at Darjeeling, which locality is, as we know, 7100 feet above 
the level of the sea. Finally, Mr. Hodgson has sent numerous 
specimens from Nepal to the British Museum, but it is much to be 
regretted that he has not paid the same attention to their altitudinal 
distribution as he has done in the higher classes of Vertebrata; and I 
have been obliged to make a cautious selection from among the 
species sent by him, in order not to admit those which, although from 
Nepal, belong exclusively to the lowland fauna. 
The collection of Messrs. von Schlagintweit is composed of 118 
specimens, nearly all of which are in the best state of preservation ; 
they have been transferred to the British Museum, together with 
the large Collection of the East India Company. A few only were 
collected in Ceylon, at Calcutta and Kurrachee, and are not mentioned 
in this paper, with the exception of one Snake from the latter place, 
which, with no other difference than a few very slight variations in 
the small additional shields of the head, so completely agrees with 
Zamenis cliffordii as to leave no doubt as to the identity of both, 
This species therefore appears to be found along all the coasts of 
North Africa through Egypt, and to extend to the banks of the 
Indus ! 
I shall first give the descriptions of the new species f. 
I. Descriptions of the New Species. 
BarycePHauus {, Gthr. 
Head, body, and tail rather depressed, the latter tapering ; tym- 
panum circular; throat with a deep transverse fold; preeanal or 
femoral pores none ; head covered above with very small shields ; 
back with very small square, keeled, and imbricate scales ; sides gra- 
nular, with scattered spines ; belly with small square plates in trans- 
verse series ; extremities and tail with oblique transverse series of 
strongly keeled scales; teeth laterally compressed, triangular, with- 
out lobes. 
This genus is to be referred to the family of Agamide. 
* T am very sorry not to have had earlier knowledge of this paper, which con- 
tains valuable detailed descriptions of numerous species. So much cannot be 
said of a herpetological paper by another author in the twenty-second volume of 
the Asiatic Journal, which, in its present shape, is of no value whatever to science. 
t+ The discoverers of these Reptiles have requested me to dedicate the new 
species to gentlemen who have taken a particular interest in their travels. 
{ From Bapu«cpaXos, with depressed head. 
