1020 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [Oct. 



observation, should serve, not merely to illustrate the essential charac- 

 ters of two groups of animals heretofore ill discriminated, but should 

 also throw much light on those interesting questions, the effects of 

 domestication and of climate upon the natural organisation, and the 

 natural habits and range of species, subjects of high interest, no doubt, 

 though a degree of ridicule has been cast upon them by the pompous 

 dissertations of those who were at as little pains accurately to determine 

 the geographical as the Zoological data disserted upon. 



Illustrations.* 



1. The Silingia Sheep. 



2. The Barwal Sheep. 



3. The Cagia Sheep. 



4. The Dt'imba variety of the Piichia Sheep or of common breed of 

 Gangetic provinces. 



5. The Chyapu Goat. 



6. The Sinai Goat. 



7. Feet pits of sheep and of goats, and heads of Barwal and Silingia 

 Sheep. 



All figured for the first time and from nature. 



CATALOGUE OF REPTILES 



Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 



Collected or observed by Theodore Cantor, Esq., M. D., Bengal. 



Medical Service. 



(Concluded from No. CLXXXI.) 



VENOMOUS SERPENTS. 

 FAM. VIPERIDtE, Bonaparte. 

 Sur-Fam. Bungarin^e, Bonaparte. 



TERRESTRIAL. 

 Gen. Elaps, Schneider. 

 Head more or less indistinct, neck not dilatable ; mouth and eyes 

 small, trunk elongated, throughout of nearly equal circumference, very 

 smooth ; tail short, tapering, beneath with scutella. 



* For the accompanying illustrations the Editors are indebted to the liberality ol 

 James Hume, Ksq., at whose lithographic press they were executed.— Eos. 



