'■?70 Miscellaneous, 



NoHce of a new species of Nocturnal lAzard from Mexico. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Among the animals collected at Cordova in Mexico by M. Salle, 

 lately added to the Zoological Collection of the British Museum, is a 

 fine specimen of nocturnal Lizard, belonging to the genus Cubina, 

 which appears to have hitherto escaped the notice of zoologists. 



CUBTNA GRANDIS. 



Blackish, brown beneath, crown black spotted ; nape with an 

 elongated oblique spot on each side, forming an inijierfect crescent ; 

 back with five narrow, the tail with eight broad white cross rings, 

 the one on back of the neck just in front of the shoulders crescent- 

 shaped, the rest transverse. 



The back and legs covered with close, rounded, smooth tubercles ; 

 the tail with regular rings of small, less raised tubercular scales ; the 

 crown of the head with smooth scales ; the temple with conical acute 

 tubercles ; the belly covered with smooth, rather elongated, square, 

 four-sided shields ; the under side of the tail with smaller, narrow, 

 more elongated similar shields ; the chin and throat with small gra- 

 nular scales ; labial shields moderate, four-sided, with three rows of 

 larger six-sided shields on the edge of the jaw, below the lower 

 labial ])lates, the hinder one of the series being rather smaller and 

 slightly keeled ; the toes elongate, narrow, black above, with a white 

 ring over each joint. 



Body and head, 5 ; tail, 5 inches. 



Ilab. Mexico, near Cordova {M. Salle). 



On a new genus and species q/Trochilidseyro?w Ecuador. 

 By John Gould, F.R.S. &c. 



This fine species of Humming Bird is remarkable for its size, 

 deeply forked tail, and the harmonious hues of its plumage, which, 

 although less glittering and metallic than in many other species, is 

 nevertheless strikingly beautiful. I consider this bird to be new to 

 science, both generically and specifically, and as the name of Fictoria 

 reyia has been given to one of the finest flowers of the same part of 

 South America, I am desirous of dedicating this new Humming Bird 

 to the Empress of the French, and I accordingly propose to name it 

 Eugenia imjierafrix. Its native habitat is the vast Andean forests in 

 the neighbourhood of Quito in Ecuador, where it procures its insect 

 food from the bell-shaped flowers of the Datum. 



Genus Eugenia. 

 Gen. Char. Bill rather lengthened, straight and strong ; wings 

 long and pointed ; tail lengthened and very much forked, the feathers 

 narrow and rigid ; tarsi clothed with feathers nearly to the toes ; 

 feet .small. 



Eugenia imperatrix. 



Male. Face and fore part of the neck brilliant grass-green ; crown 

 of the head, back, neck, chest and upper part of the flanks very 



