57 



1 . MlC ANA NANA. 



Foluta nitidula, Soland. MSS. ; Dillw. R. S. 521. 



F. utricuku, var., Gmelin, E. M. t. 363. f. I. 



Oliva iiiiiui, Lamk.no. 60; Ouclos, Oliv. t. 25. f. 5-8, opei LB; 

 Reeve, C, I. t. 23. f. 66. 



I'. TapidulOy var., Born. 



Oliva Hi/cans, Desh. 



Foluta micoM, Soland. MSS. ; Dillw. U.S. 521 ; B. M. t. 363. f. 3. 



Oliva nrillepunctata, Duclos, Oliv. t. 25. I', l-l \ Reeve, C. I. 

 t. 28. f. 87. 



Oliva oryza, Lamk. no. 62 j Duclos, Oliv. t. 1. f, b, 10. 



Foluta oryza, Dillw. R. S. 522. 



Oliva rufifaseiata, Reeve, C. I. t. 28. f. 88. 



I I ab. West Indies. 



January 2fi, 1 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : — 



1. Notice of a New Genus of Uropeltid.e from Ceylon, in 

 the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z. and Ent. Soc. etc. 



XReptilia, PI. XIII.) 



In examining the reptiles recently acquired in the British Museum, 

 Mr. Edward Gerrard observed a Saurian from Ceylon, which lie be- 

 lieved to be new. I have great pleasure in Bending a description of 

 it to the Society, and in naming it after Mr. Gerrard, the preparer 

 of the osteological specimens and of the animals in spirits in the 

 British Museum, who has a most extraordinary empirical knowledge 

 of the osteology of the different vertebrated animals and of the 

 species of reptiles and fish. 



Mitvi.ia, n. g. 



Head tapering in front, acute ; rostral scale produced, compressed, 

 acute, bluntly keeled above and lielow. Tail \ei\ short, subcorneal, 

 rounded, covered with very close-set rough scales, each marked with 

 two Blight ridges of small asperities, with a central terminal rough 

 oblong plate furnished with a perpendicular blunt keel ; Bobcaudal 

 shields in five rows, central scries rather wider, six-sided ; vent with 

 two shields in front, and one in front of them between their bfl 



