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STOLATUS ; all from Thayet Myo; and four species of BATRACHIA 
from near the mouth of the Irawddi are LYMNODYTES ERYTHRZUS, 
RANA VITTIGERA, R. RuGULOSA (vide J. A. S. XXIV, 722), and 
BUFO MELANOSTICTUS. 
A number of fishes and Crustacea are likewise forwarded from 
different localities ; but these I have not the time to examine pro- 
perly at present. The class of fishes is that to which I devoted 
especial attention during my late excursion ; and I have more to place 
on record regarding the fishes of Burma than can be convent- 
ently compressed into an ordinary Report. I will only remark that 
Mr. Blanford’s ‘ Bream-like fish’ from Ava is the Cyprinus cotis, 
B. H., OsTEoBRAMA coTis apud nos, J. A. S. Vol. XXIX. p. 158, 
which is more emphatically bream-shaped than the Ost. MICROLEPIS, 
nobis, 2b¢d. I obtained both species in abundance, and they acquire a 
considerable size, as I anticipated, the coris being the larger of the 
two, so far as I have seen. 
IV. The Rev. C.S. P. Parish, Chaplain, Maulmein. A jar of 
sundries from Port Blair. When I was at Maulmein towards the 
close of September last, Mr. Parish was about to visit the Anda- 
mans; and I supplied him with a small jar of spirit, in which he 
obligingly promised to preserve any small animals that he might be 
able to procure. He has contributed a few additions to our scanty 
list of the Andamanese fawna, which I distinguish by prefixing an 
asterisk to their names. 
Of mammalia, one ferruginous Bat* CyNopTERUS MARGINATUS; 
abundant in all the neighbouring countries. 
species are noted —GEOCLAMYs ‘MACROCEPHALA, Gray, P. Z S. 1859, p. 478, ¢. 
XXI, and GroMyDa spinosa, Gray; thereis, also, a TRIonyxX oRNATUS, Gray, 
from Camboja, described in P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 40. G. MacRocEPHana has like- 
wise been received from Siam; also HMys sIAMENsIs, Gray, Gunther, P. Z. 8. 
1869, p. 114. 
I observe that my highly esteemed old friend, Prof. Thos. Bell, in his * History 
of British Reptiles,’ (Introduction, p. xviil, remarks that—‘ The eggs of the 
land Tortoises, as well as those of the marine Turtles, are generally round; but 
those of the fresh-water genera are usually more or less oval or elliptical.” Those 
of TrsTUDO sTELLATA are exceedingly elongated. The eggs of the TRionyx 
series are quite globular or spherical, as of the marine Turtles; but those of the 
Himys group, as likewise of the land Tortoises (so far as I have seen), are very 
much elongated and elliptical. 
+ On the Barren Island volcano, Mr. Parish found the half-devoured remains 
of a Rat, probably Mus ANDAMENsIs, nobis: the head was wanting, and Mr. 
Parish did not think the fragment worth preserving; but the Andamanese 
species is easily recognised from its size, combined with the peculiar character of 
