1853.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 411 



disiac. These Lizards make burrows in sandy and stony places to the 

 depth of 2 ft. or more. There are always several in one place, like the 

 burrows of Habbits. They are not much out in the cold weather, but in 

 the hot weather are seen roaming about near their burrows, morning and 

 evening. They appear as the sun is getting up, and stay grazing near the 

 holes till almost mid-day, and are out also in the evening. Towards dusk 

 they retire, and carefully close the holes with sand, so that it is not easy 

 to find them. They offer no resistance when caught." 



3. From E. F. Kelaart, Esq., M. D., Ceylon Medical Service. A fine 

 collection of Cinghalese reptiles chiefly, in spirit, comprising several 

 species new to the Society's museum. The species now sent are Emyda 

 punctata (head and limbs of a large specimen), — Monitor dracena, 

 Hydrosaurus salvator, — Hemidactylus triedrus, H.Pieresii, Kelaart, 



H. COCTJEI, H. FR^ENATUS, BOLTALIA SUBL2EVIS, PlRIPIA PeRONII, and 



G-ymnodactylus timoriensis ? ( G. Kandianus, Kelaart), — Lyriocepha- 

 lus scutatus, Salea Jerdoni (from Newera Elia), Calotes Bouxi ? (from 

 do. ; C. mystaceus, agreeing with Burmese specimens, having before been 

 sent from that locality), C. versicolor, C. ophiomachus (one example not 

 differing from the others in structure, having a black- edged white streak 

 extending on each side from the neck to the coloured part of the tail, on 

 which latter it breaks into spots and disappears), Sitana ponticeriana, 

 — Tiliqua eufescens, Riopa Hardwickei, — Argyrophis braminus, 

 Uropeltis (apparently a new species, of which examples have been sent 

 to the Chatham museum, where they will probably have been described by 

 Dr. A. Smith). — Calamaria scytale, Xenodon purpurascens, Coluber 

 korros, Leptophis ornatus — (var., of a clay-brown colour, the upper- 

 parts marked throughout with a series of black transverse bands, the 

 head marked as usual), Dryinus nasutus, Vipera Eussellii, Trigono- 

 cephalus nigromarginatus (specimen 27ijr in. long, with the black mark- 

 ings much more developed than in Dr. Schlegel's figure), — Icthyophis 



GLUTINOSUS, — POLYPEDATES CRUCIGER, P. LEUCOMYSTAX, LYMNODYTES 

 LIVIDUS, 71. S., L. MACULARIUS, fl. S., RaNA LeSCHENAULTH ?, TL ROBUSTA, 



n. s., Pyxicephalus fodiens, Jerdon, Engystoma rubrum, Jerdon, and 



BUFO MELANOSTICTUS. 



4. From Capt. Berdmore, Mergui. A large collection of sundries in 

 spirit, and also various skins. The mammalia sent are Gal^eopithecus 

 volans, Pteropus javanicus, Cynopterus marginatus, JNycticejus 

 Temminckii, Scotophilus coromandelianus, Felis bfngalensis, Para- 

 doxurus typus, P. leucotis (vide Ilorsficld's CataL), Tupaia ferru- 



