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ill-marked. General colour rufous brown, rump dusky ash, tail and lower 

 parts white. Fur long, dense, and slightly curly, woolly near the base. 

 Length of a skin from nose to rump 24 inches, tarsus, which is clad with 

 veiy thick hair, 5. Ears from the head 4'5, skull 3*6. 



The description will be published in full in No. 4, Part II. of the 

 Journal for 1875. 



3. Note on tlie presence of a loreal pit in Elachistodon Westermanni, on 



Platyceps semifasciatus, Ablepharus pusillus, and Blepharosteres 



agilis.— By W. T. Blaneord, F. R. S. 



(Abstract.) 



A snake from Purneah with a loreal pit has been recognised as JSla- 

 cliisfodon, a remarkable genus with gular teeth Platyceps semifasciatus is 

 identified with Zamenis ventrimaculatus and Ablepharus pusillus is recog- 

 nised as distinct from A. agilis {Blepharosteres agilis, Stol). 



This note will be published in Journal Part II, No. 4, 1875. 



Library. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

 ing held in November last. 



Presentations. 

 #*# Names of Donors in Capitals. 

 The Flora of British India. By J. D. Hooker, C. B., Vol. I. 

 Indian Wisdom, or Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and 

 Ethical Doctrines of the Hindus. By Monier Williams, M. A. 



Government of Bengal, Home Dept. 

 Records of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. VIII, Pt. 4, 1875. 



Dept. oe Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce. 

 Abstract of Results of a study of the Genera Geomys and Thomomys, 

 by Dr. E. Cones, U. S. Army. 



Dept. oe the Interior, Washington. 

 Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissensehaf- 

 ten zu Berlin, Juni, 1875. 



Royal Prussian Academy oe Sciences, Berlin. 

 Oesterreichische Monatsschrift fur den Orient. No. 10, October, 1875. 



Oriental Museum oe Vienna. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic, Septembre, Octobre, 1875. 

 Octobre. — L'Abbi' Dcst/odins. Itincraire de Yerkalo a Tse-Kow, (with map). 



Geographical Society oe Paris. 

 Annales de la Sociate Geologique de Belgique, Tome Premier, 1874. 



Geological Society oe Belqium. 



