1885.] 



THE SECRETARY ON JULODIS FFINCHI. 



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Plate V. 



Fig. 1, la. Segmnzia elegaiis, p. 42. 

 2. tricarinata, p. 43. 



3. 3a. carinata, p. 43. 



4, 4«. laxa, p. 44. 



Fig. 5-56. Lamellaria tenuis, p. 45. 



6, 6a.. Torellia dclieata,\a,r., p.47. 



7, 7a. Trichotropisfimbriata.]-)AQ. 



8, 8a. dcnsistriafa, p. 48. 



Plate VI. 



Fig. 1-16. Stilus insignis, p. 52. 



2, 2a. Ceritkhim proccrum, p. 53. 



3, 3a. gracile, p. 54. 



4, 4a. . obeliscotdes, p. 55. 



6, 5a. cylindratum, p. 55. 



Fig. 6, 6a. Ccrithmm watsoni, p. 56. 



7, 7a. Tr if or is aspera, p. 68. 



8, 8a. Cerithiopsis diadema, p. 60. 



9, 9a. horrida, p. 60. 



10. ? bizonalis, p. 62. 



February 3, 1885. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of a rare South-American 

 Lizard {Heterodactylus imbricatus), presented to the Society by 

 Mr. G. Leunon Hunt, of 16 Hanover Square, late H.B.M. Consul 

 at Rio, which had been obtained in the Montequeira Mountains 

 near Rio ; and read the following observations on it which had been 

 kindly communicated to him by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., of the 

 Zoological Department, British Museum : — 



"The handsome specimen obtained by Mr. Hunt belongs un- 

 doubtedly to Spix's Heterodactylus imbricatus. It is interesting, 

 first as being larger than any specimen hitherto noticed, its length 

 being 460 millim., in which the tail enters for 350 millim. Secondly, 

 it possesses an elongate interparietal shield, which is in contact 

 with the frontal anteriorly and with the first pair of occipitals 

 posteriorly, a character which has been regarded as peculiar to the 

 second species of the genus, H. lundii, Reinh. & Liitk. In the 

 other specimens of H. imbricatus hitherto noticed, the interparietal 

 is either altogether absent, or very short and enclosed between the 

 parietals and the anterior occipitals. The specimen is a male, and 

 shows on each side two praeanal pores, on the right leg four femoral 

 pores, and five on the left. The coloration of the upper parts is very 

 obscure, the light lateral band characteristic of the species being 

 hardly traceable." 



The Secretary exhibited the type-specimen of a beetle of the 

 family Buprestidae remarkable for its large size, which had lately 

 been described by Mr. Charles O. Waterhouse, of the British 

 Museum (Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 5, vol. xiv. p. 429), as Julodis 

 ffinchi. 



The specimen in question had been transmitted to the Society by 

 Mr. B. F. Ffinch, of the Persian-Gulf Telegraph Service, Karachi, 



