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smooth, instead of being minutely tuberculated as in H. maculata. 

 The limbs also are proportionately much larger and stronger. Colour 

 of the specimen preserved in spirits dark livid brown, with a broad 

 lateral black band commencing at the nostril, continued beyond the 

 eye, and becoming less distinct after passing the fore-leg ; sides of the 

 abdomen, and the thigh, a little mottled or speckled, and the fore-limbs 

 and legs obscurely banded with livid black : beneath pale and spotless. 

 Length from muzzle to vent two inches and one-eighth, and breadth 

 behind the eyes seven-eighths of an inch, of the loins half an inch; 

 anterior limb to end of longest toe an inch and a half, and hind limb 

 ditto four inches and a half: eyes large and prominent. 



Pisces. 



Pimelodus nangra, Buch. Hamilton. 



Pimelodus 9 Young. 



Cyprinus cotus, Buch. Ham. 

 Gobio isurus, McClelland. 



Silurus f Young. 



Solea isostoma, McClelland, M.S. 



Mollusca. 

 Three species of Shells, undetermined. 



Crustacea. 

 One large species of Oniscus, which also occurs on the Neilgherries. 



Arachnida. 



Two or three Spiders, one of large size, which I have somewhere 

 seen figured, and which is common here during the cool season, and 

 also inhabits the forests of Malabar. 



Insecta. 



A considerable collection, almost entirely consisting of Lepidoptera, 

 Co/eoptera, and a moderate number of Hemiptera. Among the first, 

 is the celebrated Purple Emperor Butterfly of Europe ( Apatura iris J, 

 and various other European species, as Doritis Apollo, Rhodocera v. 

 Gonepteryx rhamni, the cosmopolite Cynthia cardui (which I have 

 also procured near Calcutta, and have specimens from Afghanistan 



