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Mr. Atkinson has brought one Lizard in spirit, which I take to be the 

 female of a new species of Dilophyeus, wherein the nuchal crest is very 

 small, and the dorsal crest is reduced to a mere keel, — perhaps a sexual 

 distinction : on each side of the occiput a small white tubercle. As we 

 shall probably soon receive other and male examples, with developed 

 crests, it is not desirable to describe from this first individual. 



Of fishes, only a fine species of Balistes, allied in form to B. bico- 

 lor, Shaw ; wholly black, except a white line at base of second dorsal 

 and another at base of anal fins, and a narrow white edge to the 

 tail. From the Nicobars we possess B. bicolor, and another undeter- 

 mined. 



Among the species collected by Dr. Liebig at Port Blair should have 

 been enumerated Spratella fimbrtata, Val. # 



Mr. Atkinson has brought a few Crustacea and Radiala j but as I 

 have reason to expect more extensive collections shortly, I defer noticing 

 them further, and this also from want of space on the present occasion. 



In the course of a trip to the mountains of the interior, from Moulmein, 

 Mr. Atkinson collected various specimens, the more remarkable of which 

 I now proceed to notice. The mammalia are — 



Macacus caebonaeius, F. Cuv. ; of which ill", auraius, Is. Geoffroy, 

 figured in the Zoologie of Belanger's Voyage, is a pyrrkous variety. M. 

 carbonarius is the common long-tailed Macacus of the Burmese coun- 

 tries, and is nearly akin to M. cynomologos, so abundant in the Malayan 

 peninsula and archipelago ; but has no crest on vertex, and a blackish face 

 with white eye-lids, as in the Mangabey Monkeys of Africa. It is a great 

 devourer of Crustacea, which it finds during the ebb of the tide. 



Tupaia febeuginea, var. peguensis. Common from the Kas'hya hills 

 down to Mergui. 



Sciurus bicolob, Sparrman. 



Sc. cheysonotus, nobis. Eemarkably fine. From the interior. 



Sc. Phayeei, nobis, J. A. S. XXIV, 476. A second example of this 

 well marked species, true to the characters described, and obtained half- 

 way between Amherst and Moulmein. 



tatus, obtained at Port Blair by Capt. Eales, commanding the c Fire Queen,' S. V. ; 

 and from Capt. Hodge, commanding the guard-ship ' Sesostris,' at Port Blair, two 

 specimens of Dendrophis pictus, greener or less bronzed than usual ; together 

 with a fine example of a fish — Pteeois antennarius, some Crabs — Geapstts 

 strigosus, and larvae of an Acherontia. 



* Numerous species of fishes have since been received from Capt. Hodge, which 

 will be noticed in a future Report. 



