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jaw with a long, continued ridge from the front of each eye; nu- 

 chal plates small or wanting ; forehead square, with nearly paral- 

 lel sides, half as wide again as the muzzle at the anterior notch ; 

 muzzle at the 9th tooth nearly half as wide as the space between 

 the nose and eyes; scales of the hack oblong, longitudinal, equal, 

 in 8 rows. 



a. Stuffed, one-third grown. Length 39 inches. India. 



b. Half grown. Length 34 inches. India. 



c. d, h, in, n. In spirits, young. Old collection. 



e,f. In spirits, young. India. Presented by Gen. Th. Hardwicke. 



g. In spirits, young. India. Presented by Capt. Stafford. 



i — k. In spirits, very young. India. Presented by Gen. Th. 

 Hardwicke. 



/. An egg. India. 



n. In spirits, young, not good state. Presented by Edward Cook, 

 Esq. 



o — q. Stuffed, young. Length 1 8 to 20 inches. India. Pre- 

 sented by Gen. Th. Hardwicke. 



r. Stuffed. Length 54 inches. India. 



The Large-headed Indian Crocodile. Crocodilus bombi- 

 frons, Gray, D. C. 32, n. 6, ined. 



Face short, oblong, convex, rugose, pitted, without any ribs in 

 front, sides only slightly converging, much swollen behind the 

 notch, half as long again as the head behind, and at the 9th upper 

 tooth as wide as from the back of the nose-hole to the orbit ; fore- 

 head flat, with nearly parallel sides ; nasal hole orbicular ; suture 

 of the intermaxillary straight, transverse; nasal hole round, back 

 edge rather behind the middle of the notch of the canines. 



a. Skull. Length 20 inches. India. Presented by Capt. Oriel. 



b. Skull. Length 18 inches. India. From the Museum of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



In the Paris Museum there is a large specimen, not in a very 

 good state, which has been described by Dumeril and Bibron, as 

 an adult of C. biporcatus, which appears to belong to this species. 

 It has 6 smallish cervical shields, and 6 series of small oval elon- 

 gate shields, rather far apart, covering the upper part of the back; 

 the sides are smooth, without any line of smaller shields. It is 

 quite distinct from C. palustris of the same size, in having a 

 broader muzzle, and in the size and form of the dorsal shields. It 

 is immediately known from C. porosus by the breadth and convex- 

 ity of the face. 



