68 MR. G. H. KENEICK ON PYKALIDiE [Jan. 15, 



well seen in the two small species of Chamfeleons, viz. Ch. 2)umilus 

 and Ch. tceniohronchus, where the Ivings have no diverticula and 

 the intestinal tract is nearly straight. 



(5) The very general presence of a giibernacukini cordis among 

 the Lacertiha renders its absence in Zonurus a matter worthy of 

 comment. 



(6) The most important fact, perhaps, which I have been able 

 to ascertain is the persistence in several genera of Lacertilia 

 of considerable remains of the fourth visceral arch (second 

 branchial). This is a fair-sized bar of cartilage which does not 

 make any connection with the copula below. The existence of 

 this arch has, however, been recorded in the adult Lacerta by the 

 late W. K. Parker. 



(7) The two genera Varanus and Heloderma (which are quite 

 remote from each other in some structural features) agree with 

 each other in that each bronchus is adherent to its lung for 

 some little distance before it enters it, and emits a short branch to 

 the upper end of the lung before it becomes confluent with 

 the lung. 



(8) It is interesting to note the double gastro - hepatic 

 membrane in certain Scincidse, which is associated with a 

 correspondingly double set of gastro-hepatic veins, as distinctive 

 of that family, though not universal. 



4. A List of Moths of the Family Pyralidce collected by 

 A. E. Pratt in British New Guinea in 1902-3, with 

 Descriptions o£ new Species. By George H. Kenrick, 

 F.Z.S. 



[Received December 8, 1906.J 

 (Plates III. & IV.*) 



This collection was miade under circumstances mentioned by 

 Mr. Pratt in his book ' Two Years among N'ew Guinea Cannibals,' 

 published in 1905, and beyond the fact that most of the speci- 

 mens were taken at light very little information can be given. 



The country in which the collections were made appears in 

 some of its characters to resemble Darjiling : there are the same 

 precipitous ridges with nari'ow valleys between, all with a back- 

 ground of snowy mountains of great elevation, and everywhere 

 there is much dense forest. The climate, with its abundant rain 

 in the wet season and brisk air in the dry season, is also similar, 

 while an abundant lepidopterous fauna completes the resemblance. 



Although most of the insects were taken at light, in most cases 

 females were well represented and the condition of the insects is 

 extremely good. 



* For explanation of the Plates, see p. 87. 



