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one band ; and then the head shields will lie thus : — three 
pair of band-like frontal, two smaller triangular superciliary 
shields over each eye, having in the middle between them two 
triangular parietal shields. 
" Calaharia Fusca (pi. xiv.) 
"Dark brown, some of the scales yellowish, scattered singly 
or in groups on the back and sides ; ventral shields grayish. 
Sides of the belly with a few unequal yellow spots. 
" Length, 36 inches ; diameter, 1 inch. Hah. Old Calabar, 
West Africa. {Geo. Logan, Esq.) 
" Since this paper was read, I have discovered a young 
specimen of this boa among the specimens from the Zoological 
Society, which they had received from Fernando Po. It is 
about half the length and diameter of the specimen from Old 
Calabar. It has the head shields more uniform, and as I sup- 
posed they might be when I described that specimen. It has 
three pairs of band-like frontal shields over the forehead, a 
rather large parietal shield behind them on the crown of the 
head, and two small subequal superciliary shields between the 
outer edge of the parietal and the eye, on each side a narrow 
transverse band-like central shield behind, and rather broader 
than the parietal shield, w^ith a small scale-like shield, like 
those on the neck behind, and on the sides of it." 
Although the above descriptions have thus already appeared 
in the proceedings of another Society, there has been no hesi- 
tation in fully quoting them, not perhaps because they ought 
rightfully to have first been given in the Proceedings of this 
Society, but that they are of sufficient interest to entitle them 
to repetition. 
Of the other specimens of reptiles returned by Dr Gray, that 
labelled Ahcetidla Chenonii will be found noticed in a most 
useful list prepared by him, at p. 161 of the above-mentioned 
part of the Zoological Society's Proceedings, No. 68 of the list, 
under the leading name of Ahcetidla Irregularis, together 
with its synonyms ; the localities assigned being Gambia, 
Fantee, and the Gold Coast. Another of the specimens will 
be found noticed in the same list, immediately following, under 
the name Alimtulla Smaragdina, together with its synonyms, 
