ACOOUXTS, i;C., UF THK BRITISH MrSEl'M. (jg 



Eight specimens from Port Walcott, N. W. Australia, inclu.Iing a Lizard new to the 

 collection {Li/jjosonui Ji-'icherl) ; purchased. 



Fourteen Snakes from Natal ; presented by E. Hewlett, Esq. 



Thirteen specimens fi-om Antongi] Bay, JIadagascar ;' presented by L. H. Ran- 

 some, Esq. 



Twenty-tive specimens, collected by the Rev. James Wills, in the forests east of 

 Imerina, Madagascar, including a new (Jhameleon {(Jh(nn(d<um vAlhi) and a new 

 Snake (LlopJiis iiaeri'iue) ; purchased. 



Fifty-one specimens of Lizards from Texas and North East Mexico ; purchased. 



One hundred and thirty-four Lizards from Mexico, among which are the types of 

 five new species {Sreloporufi ted.penniH, ti. orniltemd.nuH, S. i-nhri rentrin, S. mlvini, 

 S. irazuenf^U) ; presented by F. Du Cane Gothnan, Esq. 



Two specimens of a new Lizard {AnoJin pan(omensh) from Panama; presented by 

 'G. A. Boulenger, Esq. 



Fifty-one specimens from Hayti ; purchased. 



Thirteen specimens from Dominica, and twenty-fou)' from S'» Lucia, includino- a 

 Gecko new to the collection {8phAi;rodactylus microlepis) ; presented by the West 

 India Committee for Exploration of the Lesser Antilles. 



Eighteen specimens from Barbados ; presented by Colonel Feilden. 



Eighteen Snakes from the Republic of Colombia ; purchased. 



An Xu\])h.mhce.m\ (A. t> eel! lent' dis) from N. Peru, new to the collection ; obtained 

 in exchange. 



Batrachians. — Two hundred and eighty specimens were added to this class, of 

 which the following are the most important : — 



Sixty-eight specimens from the late Dr. Fischer's collection, including examples of 

 many new or rare species ; purchased. 



Seven specimens from Ichang, on the Yang-tse-Kiang, amongst which are examples 

 of two new species {Rana houlengeri and Hynohius sinensis); purchased. 



Twenty-two specimens from the collection made in Burma by Sr. L. Fea, including 

 types of four species (Rana fmmeralis, Ixalus vittatus ; Bufo macrotis, Le'pto- 

 brach ium few) ; j)virchased. 



Fifteen specimens from the District of Deli, Sumatra, including a new Frog 

 (Micruhyla inofnaia) ; obtained partly by purchase, partly by exchange. 



Twelve specimens collected by Mr. Woodford in the Islands of Guadalcanar and 

 Florida, Solomon Archipelago ; purchased. 



Twenty-three specimens from Madagascar, including four new Frogs [Rana 

 Jlavicrus, R. hiporus, R. redimita, Plntyhyla grandis) ; purchased. 



Twenty-one specimens from Texas and North East Mexico ; purchased. 



Four specimens of a new Frog from Trinidad {Ev/peniphAx trinitatis) ; presented 

 by J. H. Hart, Esq. 



Twenty-five specimens from Colonia Resistencia, Argentine Republic, including 

 tpyes of two new species (Hyla nana and H. ph ry node rnia) ; received in exchange. 



Fishes. — The number of additions amounts to six thousand one hundred and 

 thirty; in addition to the "Day" and other collections already mentioned, the follow- 

 ing are the most noteworthy : — 



An interesting variety of Lepntdoyaster himaculats from Loch Craignish, Argyle- 

 shire ; presented by the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, m.p. 



Specimens of Trout {Salriio fario) from lakes in Boola Valley, Commeragh 

 Mountains, alt. 1,(300-1,800 feet; presented by Edward Ussher Quin, Esq. 



Two specimens of Maurolicus horealis from Montrose ; presented by J. Duncan, 

 Esq. 



Five Pleuronectoids from Nice ; presented by Professor Bellotti. 



Five Pleuronectoids from Sicily ; presented by Professor Doderlein. 



Eio'hty-six specimens from Muscat, Arabia, including representatives of three 

 new sijecies (Anthias formosus, Sudis jaya.kari, Monacanthus nielaAioproctes) ; 

 presented by Surgeon Major A. S. G. Jayakar. 



Eleven fish obtained at Kashgar by the Rev. H. Lansdell; purchased. 



One hundred and seventy-six specimens from the Yang-tse-Kiang, among which 

 are the types of two new species (PseVAloyohio sfyii,ni and Seoinhrocyj>ris stya/iii), 

 collected by F. W. Sty an, Esq. ; purchased. 



One hundred and sixty-four specimens from Deoli, Rajputana ; purchased. 



Forty-five specimens from Dehra Dun, Noith West Provinces ; presented by the 

 Dehra Dun Fishing Association. 



The skeleton of a large Siluroid (Bagarius yarreUii) irom the Hughly River; 

 presented by Dr. J. Anderson, F.R..S. 



A large Shark (Rhinodon typicus), of which one specimen only is known to have 

 been previously secured for a museum ; this shark, when adult, is said to exceed fifty 

 feet in length, and is certainly the largest fish in existence ; the present specimen is 

 vouno-, fourteen feet long, and from the west coast of Ceylon ; presented by the 



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Seventy-seven specimens fiom the Di.'strict oi Deli, Sumatra, among wliicii is the 

 0.74. H 4 type 



