1859.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 279 



haps the female of a distinct race, remarkable for the great development 

 of the black markings of its plumage." Mr. Atkinson has now brought 

 a young female of the same race, in which the cap is fuscous, with scarcely 

 an indication of rufous margining the feathers, the fuscous colour also 

 predominating over the rufous upon the whole upper plumage, and on the 

 tail the rufous bands are narrower than the black bands. The adult male 

 is still a desideratum. 



Pericrocotus elegans(?), McClelland, as distinguished from P. flam- 

 meus of S. India and Ceylon. A female (?), of the size of P. flammetjs, 

 but the yellow portion of the plumage much deeper than in that species, 

 and also much more of this colour upon the forehead, where brighter and 

 better defined than in the female of P. speciosus. P. slegans is describ- 

 ed from Asam. 



Phylloscopus trochiloides, (Sundevall). Mentioned on account of 

 the locality. 



Of reptiles, Acanthosaura armata, Gray ; and a beautiful Gecko 

 from the interior : — 



Naultinus variegatus, nobis, n. s. Unguinal and penultimate phalan- 

 ges of toes long and compressed. Body and sides uniformly studded 

 with large tubercles, which gradually disappear on the tail ; the lower- 

 parts covered with large flat scales, bounded by a prominent ridge on each 

 flank : series of femoral pores extending quite across, and behind these, 

 anterior to the vent, four scales larger than the rest : a few small scales 

 posterior to the vent, followed by a series of broad subcaudal plates. 

 Scales upon head and throat minute, those on the face anterior to the eyes 

 larger. Eyes large with vertical pupils. Colour grey, beautifully spotted 

 and marbled with black, set off with subdued white. Lower-parts whitish, 

 freckled on the tail with black, and gradually more of this to the ex- 

 tremity, the terminal third being almost wholly blackish ; above, the tail 

 is irregularly banded. A broad dark streak bordered with whitish behind 

 each eye, and continued irregularly round the occiput. On the back the 

 markings appear as irregular bands, paler internally and blackish on their 

 zigzag borders, most difficult to describe intelligibly ; the head above is 

 spotted and not banded. Entire length 6| in., of which the tail measures 

 3fin.* 



A few fishes will be noticed subsequently ; together with Major Berd- 

 more's specimens and others. 



* Since referring the above species to Naultinus, Gray, I have seen his figuro 

 of N. pacificus (Platydactylm Duvaucelii, D. et B.), of new Zealand, in the 

 Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. ' Erebus,' and perceive no reason to alter the 

 arrangement. 



