386 Dr. J. E. Gray on some new species of Reptiles. 



differs specifically from that figured by them as belonging to 

 Lysidice ninetta (Litt. de la France, ii. pi. 3 b. fig. 8). 



Others are simple lancets, as fig. 7 of the same plate, except 

 that the dilated head has but one curvature, and that the point 

 is drawn out to much greater length and fineness. 



The specimen above-described was found on an oyster dredged 

 off Lee, near Ilfracombe, in September. It was rather inert, 

 but crawled slowly about, and when much disturbed, threw itself 

 into figure-8 contortions. No species of the genus is enume- 

 rated by Dr. Johnston in his Index to the Brit. Annelides (Ann. 

 N. H. No. 108). 



Class ZOOPHYTA. 



Fam. CoRYNiD^. 



Spadix Cocksii* {S. purpurea, mihi) is sufficiently numerous 

 about the ledges under Binkleaf, adhering to the under surfaces 

 of stones in the Laminarian zone. Some specimens can extend 

 themselves to an inch and a half in length, and contract the pa- 

 pillose head to a lump almost globular. The papillse of one 

 which was active, and much extended, assumed, under the mi- 

 croscope, very distinctly the form of the tentacles in Coryne, 

 each consisting of a somewhat thick, pellucid, cylindrical, flexible 

 neck, and a terminal, globose, opake head. Of its place in this 

 family I have scarcely any doubt. 



Weymouth, Nov. 1, 1853. 



XXXVI. — Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles col- 

 lected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East 

 Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. By J. E. Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 V.P.Z.S., P.B.S. &c. 



Dr. Joseph Hooker, on his return from Thibet, Sikkim, and 

 Khassia in Eastern Bengal, kindly sent the Reptiles he had col- 

 lected to the British Museum : as several of them have proved 

 to be hitherto unrecorded in our Systematic Catalogue, I here- 

 with send you for publication in the ' Annals ' short descriptions 

 of the new species. 



* Since the above was sent oflp, Mr. Cocks's note on this animal appeared 

 in the November Number of the ' Annals.' The generic name Arum is not 

 admissible, as it belongs to a well-known genus in botany ; I gladly recog- 

 nise, however, the superior claim of the specific appellation, which pays a 

 deserved compliment to an excellent naturalist. 



