1846.] Notes on the Fauna of the Nicobar Islands. 379 



Invertebrata. 



The only terrene species pertaining to an invertebrate class, which I 

 have yet seen from the Nicobars, is the common Scolopendra morsitans. 

 Of marine species, Capt. Lewis brought a Loligo, and various species of 

 Testacea common in the Bay : also two species of Asterias, and specimens 

 of Fungia patella, Tubipora musica, and a few other common corals. 

 Of Crustacea, he preserved the claws of an extraordinarily large speci- 

 men of the common edible crab of India (Lupa tranquebarica), with 

 examples of one of the species confounded under Matuta lunaris, and a 

 small crab which accords perfectly with the figure and description of Grap- 

 sillus dentatus, Macleay, in Dr. A. Smith's 'Zoology of S. Africa;' also 

 a Pagurus, and a fine specimen of Palinurus ornatus, and one of Thenus 

 orient alts ; with a small Alpheus, and one or two other minute Palemo- 

 nidae which are probably undescribed. 



(To Mr. Barbe, the Society is further indebted for numerous speci- 

 mens of mammalia, birds, &c. from Penang, and from the Tenasserim 

 Province of Ye ; also from the interior of the Tipperah hills. Among 

 the Tenasserim specimens are a new Monkey (Presbytis humeralis, 

 nobis), three new Squirrels (Sciurus chrysonotus, Sc. melanotus and Sc. 

 Barbel, nobis, — the last being allied to Sc. insignis, M' Clellandii, and 

 trilineatusj, — fine specimens of Ampeliceps coronatus (p. 32, ante), Treron 

 viridi/rons (XIV, 849), and various other species of much interest, 

 including several that had only previously been obtained further to the 

 southward, in the Malayan peninsula and Islands.) 



