brought from Cuba by Mr. MacLeay. 115 



Young with three distinct streaks on the back, the central one 

 being rather the broadest ; the upper part of the sides with black 

 net- work leaving a series of round olive spots. 



Inhab. Cuba. 



This species differs from all the other species of the genus we have 

 in the British Museum in colour as well as in the pecuUarity of the 

 band of granular sides between the lateral and gular shields. 



" Found under large stones in woods, and always on the ground 

 looking for insects under the brushwood." — W, S. M. 



Alligator. 



9. Alligator fissipes. Caiman fissipes, Spix. Braz.t.S. Champsa 

 fissipes, Wagler Icon. t. 17. 



Alligator Sclerops, Br. Max. Abild. Braz. t. 69. Crocodilus Scle- 

 rops, Schinz. Nal. Kept. t. 12. copied from Pr. Max. 

 Alligator Cynocephalus, Dum.andBibr. Rept. iii. 87. 

 " Occurs sometimes 25 feet long." — W. S. M. 



Testudo. 



10. Gopher Tortoise, Bartram. Testudo Polyphemus. 

 Inhab. Cuba. 



Lives in domestication. 



Amphisb^na. 



11. Amphisbeena punctata, Bell Zool. Journ. iii. 

 Inhab. Cuba. 



XIV. — Characters of Five new Species of Orchidaceous Plants 

 from Dominica. By Prof. Lindley. 



In a small but interesting collection of dried plants of Orchi- 

 dacece, collected in the island of Dominica, for the possession 

 of which I am indebted to Prof. Henslow, there are the fol- 

 lowing new species. 



1. Stblis 5ca6nc?a ; folio oblongo bidentato marginato basi 



cuneato caule longiore, racemo filiformi stricto folio lon- 

 giore, bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus acutissimis, petalis 

 vertice scabridis labelloque laevi truncatis, anthera pube- 

 scente. 



2. Pleurothallis aristata* ; caespitosa, folio ovali acute 



* Since this was in type, I have found this plant described and figured, 

 under the same name which had been given it by me, in the 2nd volume of 

 this work, p. 329, t. 15, by Sir W. Hooker. Tliere are however differences 

 enough between the two definitions to induce me to let my own remain. 



