1855.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 711 



Report for October Meeting, 1855. 

 The donations received during the last three months are as follow :— * 



1. Sir J. Brooke, K. C. B., Sarawak : Fine skeletons of a large adult 

 Orang-utan, in addition to the two mentioned in my last Eeport (p. 469 

 ante). A memoir on these skeletons has already been submitted for pub- 

 lication.* 



2. Capt. Berdmore, Schwe Gyen, on the Sitang river, Pegu. A col- 

 lection of numerous sundries. 



Among mammalia, two specimens of a new Shrew (Sorex fuliginosus, 

 nobis, p. 362 ante), — a Tupaia in spirit,— and a skin of Sciurus Xerau- 

 drenii. 



Of birds, Mioropternus phaioceps in spirit, and numerous specimens 

 of Emberiza aureola. 



Of reptiles, seven living examples of Emys ocellata, D. and B., and 

 one of Cistudo dentata ; a dried young specimen of the very remarkable 

 Platysternon megacephalum, Gray, previously only known from China ; 

 Emyda punctata, very small ; Hemidactylus erenatus ; Piripia Pe- 

 ronii; Draco lineatus (Dracunculus apud Gray, a name long previ- 

 ously bestowed on the ' Guinea-worm') ; Calotes mystaceus ; C. emma ; 



LEIOLEPIS EEEVESII ; TlLIQUA MACULARIA ; ElOPA ALBOPUNCTATA ; MO- 

 NITOR SALVATOR ; LYCODON AULICUS ; LEPTOPHIS ORNATUS ; DlPSAS FER- 



RUOiNEA, Cantor, var. ; Trigonocephalus gramineus, Mai. var. ; Me- 



GALOPHRYS GUTTULATA, 71. S. J EaNA VITTIGERA ; E. ALTILABRIS, 91. S. ; 



Engystoma (?) Berdmorei, n. s. ; E. ? (young) ; and tadpoles of 



probably our new Eana fusca, to be described presently ; also Bufo 



MELANOSTICTUS. 



Likewise an interesting series of land-shells ; and a bottle of insects 

 in spirit. 



The novelties and rarities comprised in this collection will be brought 

 under notice together with those presented by Mr. Theobald. 



3. W. Theobald, Esq. Junr. ; attached to the Government Geological 

 Survey. Another rich collection of sundries, from Mergui and the valley 

 of the Tenasserim river. 



Of mammalia, the skeletons of a fine mature male of Hylobates lar, 

 and one of Ehizomys sdmatranus. Sundry exuvice of Presbytis ob- 

 scurus, Eeid (to which Pr. Barbel, nobis, may now be definitively referred 

 as a slight variety). Specimens in spirit of Megaderma spasma, Hippo- 

 sideros murinus, Taphozous saccolaimus, T. longimanus, Nycticejus 

 Temminckii, and Cynopterus marginatus; Sorex murinus (verus) % 

 * Vide p. 518, ante. 



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