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Catalogue of Reptiles. 



ifiSfSS* ** Batavian Society. 



/". p. ditto, in spirit. 



& skeleton of adult female. 



Head, 26 ; Body, 72 ; Mutlal, A. Sturmer and 



Tail 90 = 195 inches H. B. Farr, i-sq. 



,^i very young ^ ^ ^ 



4 inches, premaxillary 

 suture very direct, may 

 belong to trigonops (?). 



1. very large skull, 29 inches 



m. n. o. oo. skulls of adults 



on. no . skulls of half grown 



animals, (imperfect.) 



The synonymy of our Indian crocodiles is very confused but the 



spedmeT mTrfe Museum of the Asiatic Soceity clearly illustrate the 



^^'Z^^^^^e are 4 stuffed specimens 2 i n 



spfrTt and two skulls. From this poverty of specimens, I should argue 



^^^f^nlchS^ be well confounded with either of the 



^^rondlv of Crococlilns trigonous, the Society possesses one stuffed 

 Z„ L I believe it to be) and two skulls, one skull from Western 



srt^ rec ° rf - of tMs s P ecies i a \ so r sse \ s 



I skull of aS shot by myself in the Nerbudda, of which most 



^rutjll% G de° S crftion of its triagonal shape I refer these 

 sVull, tc his ILnops, as they are very nearly two-thirds as broad 

 across the condyles, (measured straight) as long : my specimen measur- 

 W from back of head to insertion of 1st tooth 19.10, across condyles 

 ^ 8 25 Besides its trigonal shape, a distinctive mark of this species is 

 tl ^ premammary suture which runs straight across the palate from 

 notch tonotcb The region of the external nares is very tumid with 

 a deep ? sunken interspace behind it, giving a very pugnpse physio- 

 In S to the animal, very much more so than in G. palustns. In fi out 

 gnomy to trie ^^M_- ooo WftTllrffl .* S11 tnre of the facial bones, 



Contrasting by its smoothness with the pitted surface >**«££ ,™j 

 otvlp of pittin<* differs moreover from skull of C. palastnsm oem 

 Sore ilJular the pits more circular than elongate, and not given to 

 rnastomosing so much as in 0. palustris. It is an extremely well 

 markeTspecfes but is not alluded lo by Prof. Huxley in his > xustrmd 

 five paper on these saurians in Proc. to. Soc, February, 1859 faora 

 the S as I presume, of the British Museum containing only twd 

 voung stuffed specimens, which would not afford proper data for 

 remark. It would seem to be a small species : my specimen, which 

 seW nearly adult, was not more than eight feet, if I -recollect 

 Sly It was shot too under peculiar circumstances Dropping 

 down the Nerbudda in a canoe, I saw what I took for a stone lymg J 

 a hole in the steep bank of the river. The hole not being more than 2 





