60 ON A LIZARD AND THREE SPECIES OF SALARIAS. 
SALARIAS FURTIVUS, 
D. 34, A. 24. 
The preabdominal height of the body is 6%, the length of the 
head 6}, in the total length; dorsal not notched, of uniform 
height, about half as high as the body, and not reaching the 
caudal fin. No crest nor tentacles whatever. Lower canines 
long; upper ones short. Anterior profile of head, from upper 
edge of orbit to the muzzle, rather oblique. Caudal fin, short, 
rounded. Ground colour, yellow, with three or four rows of 
small faint dark spots on the hinder part of the body, and a row 
on the back below the dorsal fin. Anterior dorsal, with a dark 
blotch on each ray and adjacent part of web near the base; soft 
dorsal, with three or four longitudinal dark stripes. A dark 
spot behind the eye. Ina third specimen, the cheeks and chin 
are spotted ; the spots on the body are more conspicuous and 
form a mesial line of larger spots of which the spot behind the 
eye is the commencement. On the other hand, the markings 
of the dorsal fin are faint. The anal is black edged. 
OBJECTS EXHIBITED. 
Dr. Bancroft exhibited—(1), Moths of a grass-green colour, 
which had been bred from specimens of a caterpillar which he 
had observed to be very destructive to the foliage of the ‘ bitter- 
bark,” Alstonia constricta. (Dr. Bancroft also alluded to the 
growing reputation which this bitter-bark was attaining, both 
in Europe and America, and stated that this was partly due to 
the fact that chemists in Germany had made it a subject of tho- _ 
ough investigation. He also remarked that it was likely to — 
supersede both quinine and strychnia for the purpose of giving 
tonicity to the stomach in cases of fever). (2), Asample of a 
very valuable rice—the celebrated American “‘ Golden Hull ”’— 
procured from plants which had been self-sown in a swamp 
near Brisbane. (3), A scapular of a large turtle, derived from an 
