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lus (affined to H. montanus, Jerdon), and Buro melanostictus (?),» 

 var. ? — having the skin much less warty than usual, especially on the 

 sides of the body and under-parts generally, which last are throughout 

 speckled with black. 



Likewise a small Goby (Periopthalmus) ; a crustacean affined to Homa- 

 rus ; specimens of a Thelpheusa Crab, imbedded in hard desiccated 

 mud (as if fossilized) ; and many sundries. 



Calotes emma, Gray. Affined to Acanthosaura, Gray, not only by 

 the pit anterior to the shoulder being more strongly developed than in C. 

 mystaceus and C. Rouxi, and black internally, as in Ac. armata, but by 

 the greater elevation of the orbit, which however is less than in Acan- 

 thosaura, though it bears a similar spine posteriorly. The scales, 

 however, are those of typical Calotes, but less obliquely disposed ; 

 and they are but very slightly keeled. A series of spines above the 

 tympanum, each having one longer than the rest, and that of the anterior 

 series longest, exceeding the orbital spine. A nuchal crest of moderately 

 elevated spines, but the back is simply keeled. Longest hind-toe reaching 

 to the eye. Length 13 in., of which the tail measures 8| in. Colour 

 brown, variegated with darker brown and with pale brown. A black line 

 passes through the eye to the ear, commencing a little behind the nostrils, 

 and there are four black orbital rays above and two below it. Sides of 

 the face speckled with black, and the head and throat are more or less 

 suffused with ruddy, indicative of the male sex in breeding condition.* 



* This species agrees so well in structure with Mr. Gray's description, that there 

 can be little hesitation in identifying it. He states it, however, to be from Afghan- 

 istan, as also two other new species, his C. minor and C. maria, both of which 

 latter he gives from Afghanistan and the Khasya hills. Now the late Dr. Griffith 

 collected extensively in both regions, and transmitted all his specimens to the 

 India House ; and we find that those described by Mr. Gray were presented to the 

 British Museum by the Hon'ble E. I. Company. It therefore follows, as 

 extremely probable, thatDr, Griffith's Afghan and Khasya specimens had become 

 mixed and confused ; whilst it is most improbable that the same species should 

 inhabit both the Khasyas and Afghanistan and not be observed elsewhere, and it is 

 equally improbable that so many as four species of the tropical genus Calotes 

 (besides also the affined Salea Horsfieldi, Gray,) should inhabit Afghanistan, 

 the common C. versicolor being also noted from thence by Mr. Gray. Again, 

 the affinities of the Burmese C. emma here described are with the Burmese and 

 Cinghalese C. mystaceus and C. Rouxi, and with the Burmese and Malayan 

 Acanthosaura ; and these Burmese forms and species may well extend up to the 

 Khasyas, but are most unlikely to occur in Afghanistan. C. maria has also the 



