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1863 ] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. AS 
*THALASSEUS POLIOCERCUS, Gould’s B. Austr. VII. 24. 
*PHALACROCORAX CARBOIDES, (rou'd’s B. Austr. VII. 66. 
Undistinguishable, so far as I could perceive, from Pu. CARBO of 
the northern hemisphere. 
The Reptile is— 
Hyprosavrvs varius ; Lacerta varia, Shaw. Specimen exceeding 
55 in. in length; and distinct from another Australian HypRosaurus 
in the Society’s Museum, which I have hitherto supposed to be the 
H. varius. The latter may be described as 
H. ocEennartus, nobis, 2. s. Scales on the head and face very much 
smaller than in H. varius and H. satvaror; those on the neck also 
smaller ; and the transverse rows oi scales upon the tail are uniform 
in size throughout, and on its lower surface are much smaller than in 
the others: the claws also are weaker and less hooked. Colour 
blackish ; a yellow stripe from the eye, and another from the gape 
continued along the sides of the neck: sides of the body with numer- 
ous transverse rows of yellow rings, which are continued across the 
back more distinctly posteriorly : a series of well-defined narrow yel- 
low stripes crossing the tail, the tip and under surface of which are 
‘spotless yellowish ; rest of the under-parts freckled with black scales : 
limbs spotted and barred with yellow, including the upper surface of 
the toes. Length of specimen about 32 in.* 
The Fish is— 
Heteropontus Purirerr; Squalus Philippi, Bloch Schneider ; 
Cestracion Philippi, Agassiz ; C. Quoyi, de Framenville. ‘ Port Jack- 
son Shark.’ 
VIII. Babu Rajendra Mallika. Several dead animals: among 
them a buli Gayal (Bos FRONTALIS) ; a doe fallow deer ; a large male 
pig-tailed monkey (INUUS NEMESTRINUS) ; and a hybrid monkey, a 
cross between the preceding individual and a female of the Cape 
* Specimens of a Hyprosaurus from the Andaman and Nicobar islands ap- 
pear to differ only in colouring from H. sanvaror; the transverse rows of ocelli 
upon the body being rarely traceable, however, faintly, while the entire upper 
surface is besprinkled with dull yellow scales. The H. satvaror I obtained at 
Mergui; and Monirok pracona at Patpoung, upper Martaban. The length 
which Dr. Gray assigns to his Australian H. GIGANTEUS, viz. 78 im,, 18 commonly 
attained by H. satvaror. We have one of that length from Ceylon, and -have 
seen several from Lower Bengal, It appears to be the ordinary length of the full 
grown animal, 
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