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and S. nudipes ; also M us bandicota, M. setifee (?), and M. Beed- 

 moeei, nobis : and frontlet of the Markhor (Capea megaceros), from 

 Kashmir, with tensely spiral horns (or which are straight, having a promi- 

 nent ridge wound round them.) 



Of birds, head of Buceeos subeuficollis ; and eggs of Halcyon 

 gueial, Meeops eeytheocephalus, Feancolinus Phayeei, Hoplop- 

 teeus ventralts, — and also of a reptile, Gecko veeus. 



Of reptiles, shells of Testudo elongata, nobis (J. A. S. XXXII, 639),* 

 Emys trivittata, E. ocellata, E. nigra (n. s.), E. platynota (?), var. ? 

 Cistudo dentata (adult), and Tyrse gangetica (with also the newly hatch- 

 ed young in spirit), — head of Crocodilus porosus (biporcatus, Cuv.) — and 

 specimens in spirit of Leiolepis Eeevesii, Acanthosaurus aematus, Ca- 

 lotes mystaceus, C. emma, Draco maculatus, Tachydeomus sexlinea- 

 tus, Tiliqua rufescens, T. macularia, Lygosoma aurata, Argyrophis 

 bicolor, Gray {Typhlops nigro-albws, D. and B., 15| in. long), Arg. 

 braminus, Xenodon purpurascens, Coluber mucosus, C. radiatus, 

 C. PEASINUS,t Leptophis pictus, Dipsas cynodon, D. fereuginea, 

 Cantor, Teopidonotus umbratus (Mai. var.), Tr. subminiatus, Tr. 

 junceus, Cantor, Tr. nigrocinctus (n. s.J, Bungarus flaviceps (rare), 

 JNaia lutescens (black var., without trace of the spectacle-marking on 

 the body, — below whitish with one dark band underneath the hood), Tei^ 

 gonocephalus geamineus (2 vars.), Hydrus gracilis, H. stkiatus, 



H. NIGEOCINCTUS, — PoLYPEDATES LIVIDUS (n. S.J, P. LEUCOMYSTAX (var.), 



Lymnodytes erythr-eus, L. nigrovittatus (n. s.J, Eana fusca (n. s.J, 

 Engystoma intermneatum, Hyljedactylus bivittatus, and Bufo 



MELANOSTICTUS. 



Of fishes, a curious little CoBiTis-like Siluroid, affined to Bagrus, but 

 apparently constituting an entirely new generic form, described neither 

 by Valenciennes nor by Dr. Bleeker ; also a small specimen of Amphip- 

 nous cuchia, (B. Ham.); and examples of two Bengal species of Te- 

 teaodon, viz. T. fluviatilis, B. Ham. (unique type of Dichotomyc- 

 teeis, Bibron, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 279), and T. cutcutia, B, 

 Ham. (unique type of Monoteetus, Bibron, ibid. p. 281, and probably of 

 Leiodon, Swainson, Class. Fish., 'Nat. Libr.,' II, 194, the species beino- 



* A number of living specimens have since been received from Capt. Berdmore. 

 Colour of naked parts olive-grey, varied with dull pale yellow and with black : 

 head conspicuously dull yellowish-white. 



f Of two specimens about equal in length, one (retained by Mr. Theobald) 

 measures 6 ft. 10 in. To measure the other would now be inconvenient, as to 

 remove it from the bottle might perhaps injure the specimen. 



