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much developed on the hind feet as on the fore :* the series of body scales varies 

 from 15 to 17 across, according to the part of the body; and the lateral caudal 

 scales amount to 28, alike in four specimens under examination : underneath the 

 tail, the two first diagonal series from the base consist of seven scales, the three 

 next of six scales each, and the remainder of five each to near the tip. Only the 

 lateral scales of the body, and those of the hind-limbs, are distinctly carinated, even 

 in the very young animal ; those of the fore-limbs are very slightly so, and the 

 lateral scales immediately posterior to the fore-limbs are not carinated. The largest 

 specimen measures little more than 3 ft., of which the tail is 17 inches : the latter 

 is moderately broad and flat at base, of much lighter form and more tapering than 

 in M. pentadactyla. 



Lastly, the large Manis received from Java differs very little from the last, except 

 that the auricle iu the stuffed specimen (the skull having been taken out, and the 

 skin of the head stretched out of all shape,) appears nearly obliterated ; and the ter- 

 minal portion of the tail is not glaucous -white, as in all the Arracan specimens. I 

 suspect that it does not specifically differ from the latter ; and that this is the 

 Malayan species referred to M.javanica after Schinz, by Dr. Cantor in XV, 259 ; 

 being apparently also that figured by Marsden. 



On comparing together the skulls of M. pentadactyla, M.javanica (apud nos), 

 M. leucura, and M. leptura, I find an exceedingly close resemblance between those 

 of the two former, andof the two latter species, respectively. The skull of M.javanica 

 is of a still less attenuate form than that of M. pentadactyla, but otherwise exceed- 

 ingly similar, the most prominent difference consisting in the greater size of the 

 auditory bullae ; the antero-posterior diameter of these, in M. javanica, being equal 

 to the space between them and the extremity of the occipital condyles ; whereas, 

 in M. pentadactyla, their longitudinal diameter scarcely exceeds half that space. 

 The skulls of M. leucura and M. leptura are much narrower and more attenuate 

 than in the preceding, but agree in size, and the differences between them are very 

 slight : the most prominent is the considerably greater breadth of the occipital 

 foramen in M. leptura, as shown by the further separation of the condyles, however 

 the orifice itself may have been enlarged to facilitate the extraction of the brain ; the 

 intermaxillaries are also broader in M. leucura. 



5. Win. Bracken, Esq. A skin of the Omithorhynchus paradoxus. 



6. Capt. Prior, 61th N. I. Three specimens of Lizards from Beloochistan, 

 with examples of the common Belostoma indica. The former I intend to describe, 

 when I can get figures taken of them for publication. 



7. E. O'Ryley, Esq. of Amherst. A small collection of reptiles from that vici- 

 nity, with also a specimen in spirit of Sorex Peyroitetii, Guerin, v. pygmaus, 



* I have heard it remarked that the claws of a Maids are always more developed in 

 the young- than in the adult animal : but we have all ages of the present species, and 1 

 observe a marked uniformity in this respect ; and in Mr. Frith's M. pentadactyla, about 

 half-grown, the proportions of the claws are the same as in the adult. 



