King's Survey of Australia. IS7 



For the illustration of the Reptilia, nine in number, we are 

 indebted to Mr. J. E. Gray, who considers four of them as new. 

 One of these is peculiarly remarkable by the sinsjular frill ap- 

 pended to the neck, which distinguishes it in a striking manner 

 from the Agamte, to Avhich it appears in other respects to be 

 closely allied. It is the type of the genus Chlatnj/dosaurus, 

 Gray, Ann. of Phil., and is thus described ; " C. KingU, C. 

 corpore luteo, nigro-variegato ; squamis carinatis ; pennula an_ 

 tice serratji ; cauda? corpore duplo loagiore." Another is refer- 

 able to the genus Phelsuma, Gray, ib. where a short character of 

 it, under the name of P. ornata, had been previously given* 

 The third forms the type of the genus Trachi/sauruSy Gray, and 

 is characterized as follows ; " T. rugosus, T. squamis dorsi ru- 

 gosis, caudal subspinosis ; cauda brevissima:" and the fourth is 

 the Leptophis punctulalus, " L. squamis lasvibus apice uni-inden- 

 tatis, spina; dorsalis triangularibus ; cauda quadrantali, tenui, 

 squamis squalibus ; " an interesting addition to the genus esta- 

 blished by Mr. Bell at p. 328 of our last volume, to which an- 

 other species collected by the expedition, the L. spilotus^ 

 (Coluber spilofus, Lacepede,) is also referred by Mr. Gray. 

 The Lacerta scincoidesy Shaw, is described as the type of the 

 genus Tiliqua, Gray, I.e. under the trivial name tuberculata. 



Among the Fish described, which are only seven in number, 

 one alone, the Teuthis australis^ is stated to be new. Mr. Gray, 

 however, has since ascertained that it is probably the Acanthurus 

 triostegus. lie remarks, that seven or eight other species, and 

 several interesting drawings, were brought home by Captain 

 King, Mhich may probably be novel, but which he fears to 

 describe as such lest he should increase the confusion already 

 existing in tliis neglected department of Zoology. 



With the exception of a single species of Annelida^ the whole 

 of the Annulosa collected are illustrated by Mr. W. S. IMac- 

 Leay. The number of species of insects enumerated or des- 

 cribed in the Catalogue is 192, of which 130 belong to the class 

 Mandibulata, 58 to Haustellata, and 4 to Arachnida. Of these 

 eighty-one were previously undescribed ; but the whole of them 

 except two, are referable to genera already established or indi- 



