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the latter, which I doubt not is fully developed in other Andaman exam- 

 ples. Heretofore only known from the Nicohars. 



Tephrodoenis grisola, nobis. This species we have also from Cal- 

 cutta, Arakan, Pinang, and Java ; so that it lias probably been named by 

 the late Professor Temminck. 



Geocichla innotata, nobis. Discovered in the Kicobars, and sub- 

 sequently obtained in Province Wellesley. 



Copstchus saularis, (L.) Undistinguishable from Bengal specimens. 



Artamus leucorhynchos, (L.) Badly so named ; for the bill is of a 

 fine blue.* 



Edolius ? The Malayan species of Bhim-rdj, with rudimentary 



frontal crest. 



Pycnonotus jocosus, (L.) The Burmese and Pinang variety, with 

 shorter and deeper-coloured crimson ear-tufts than in the Indian race. 



Carpophaga sylvatica, Tickell (C. cenea of India, auctorum, and of 

 Sumatra apud Raffles). Two fine specimens, quite similar to the con- 

 tinental race on either side, — i. e. differing from the marked peculiar race 

 of the Nicobars, — C. insularis, nobis.f 



In the class of reptiles, a species of Varanus was procured, but cir- 

 cumstances did not permit of its preservation. 



In that of fishes, the most remarkable is a curious new genus of the 

 Blenny group, with broad expanded pectorals, thrown out as in the 

 Loches of the genus Homaloptera (apud Bleeker, Balitora, Gray, Pla~ 

 tycara, McClelland) : — 



Andamia, nobis, n. g. Form elongated, with large expanded pectorals 

 and caudal, and a long serrated anal which is also permanently expanded ; 

 the ventrals short, even with the pectorals, and consisting each of an 

 outer simple ray and an inner divided ray, which are separated nearly to 

 the base. Head depressed, with rather small eyes, placed vertically, and 

 distantly apart ; the mouth opening downward, and furnished with a 

 remarkable labial apparatus : in front it is covered by a thin overflapping 

 upper lip, which is connected laterally by a plicature with a fold or flap 

 of membrane underneath, at a short distance from the mouth behind it : 

 minute marginal teeth in both jaws, which are perceptible to the touch 

 as a slight asperity. Dorsal fin extending the whole length of the back, 



* The alleged new Indian species of Artamus, described by Dr. Nicholson in 

 the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 195, by the name A. cucullatus, seems to be no 

 other than CAMrrcrnAGA sykksi, Strickland ! 



t The Chalcopiiaps of the Nicobars appears to be On. atjgusta of the late 

 Prince of Canino. 



