1855.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 187 



ciple on which they had prepared their model. He, at the same 

 time exhibited some daguerreotypes of the glaciers and drawings 

 of the mountain. 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department, for March Meeting. 



The following donations have been received during the past month. 



1. Capt. Berdmore, Schwe Gyen, Pegu. Another collection of sun- 

 dries, sent chiefly in spirit. 



Of mammalia, Tupaia ferrttginea (var. peguana) ; Sorex nudipes, 

 nobis, (p. 34, ante), 2 specimens ; Sciuroptera sagitta* (?) ; and 

 Rhizomts castaneus, nobis, J. A. S. XII, 1070, previously received 

 only from Arakan. 



Of birds, a skin of Haliastur indus, and entire specimen in spirit of 

 Athene cuculoides. 



Of reptiles, Hydrosaurus salvator (v. Varanus bivittatus, D. and 

 B.) ; Ptychozoon homolocephalon ; Draco maculatus j Leiolepis 

 Beevesii; Xenopeltis unicolor; Lycodon aulicus; Xenodon pur- 



PURASCENS ; DlPSAS MULTIMACULATA ; TroPIDONOTUS UMBRATUS ; Tfi. 



subminiatus ; Homolopsis enhydris (very fine) ; H. SEMIZONA- 



TA, n. S. ;f POLYPEDATES LEUCOMYSTAX ; P. (?) MARMORATUS, 71. 



* Dimensions of an adult male in spirit : nose to tail, 6£ in. ; tail without hair, 

 5 in.: hind-foot, 1^ in. 



f Homolopsis semizonata, nobis. This remarkably fine species has not a 

 little the aspect of a Viper, from the small size of its scales, the subdivision of 

 its head-plates, and the general colouring. Form moderately thick ; the body 

 with 39 rows of small strongly carinated scales. Vertical plate transversely divided 

 into two ; the anterior portion triangular, with apex to the front ; the posterior 

 semi-circular : and behind the latter is a remarkable range of five small plates, the 

 medial being elongated backward between the occipitals, and posterior to this again 

 is a minute inter-occipital : occipitals curiously scalloped each with three incisions ; 

 one posterior, one exterior, and one interior : two pairs of frontals ; a fraenal ; 

 and a post-nasal. Colour pale yellowish-brown, marked on the upper-parts with 

 about 36 semi-annuli, which are of a blackish hue on the edges, paler within : on 

 the hinder part of the body and tail are some black spots on the pale inter-spaces ; 

 and a medial black streak from the occiput is continued to the second transverse 

 semi-annulus : a triangular black spot on the snout ; also a blackish eye-streak ; 

 and small spots on each occipital : lower-parts with two irregular rows of dark 

 spots from throat to vent, bordering the scutse ; and the sub-caudal scutellse 

 are marked throughout with black. Number of scutse, 168 ; scutellse, 78 pairs. 

 Length of specimen 27 in., of which tail 6 in. It is remarkable that the abdo- 



