5 
more coppery hue than in those figured in the British Museum 
Catalogue, Vol. iv., pi. xi., representing P. castaneiventris (Verr.). 
Dioceum iENEUM, Pucker. et Jacq. 
This handsome species was first described from a female by 
Hombron & Jacquinot, in Voy. au Pole Sud., pi. 22, fig. 4, 1845, 
under the name of Dicee bronze , and afterwards by Pucheran and 
Jacquinot, Voy. au Pole Sud. Zool. p. 97 (1853), as D. ameum. 
Dendrociielidon mystacea, Less. 
A peculiar and interesting form which seems to be dispersed 
over the whole of the Solomon Islands, the Louisiades, South- 
eastern .New Guinea, the New Britain Group, and also in the 
Malay Archipelago. It nests in trees, much after the habit of 
the Wood-Swallows ( Artamus ), and the nest is made of sticks 
and twigs ; the eggs, 3 or 4 in number, are oblong, and white 
without any markings. 
Paut II. 
By J. Douglas Ogilby. 
Reptilia. 
Ckocodilus porosus, Selin. One immature example. 
Geiiyra oceanica, Less. One specimen. 
Gecko vittatus, Houtt. Seven specimens. 
Varanus indicus, Baud. Two specimens. 
Corucia zebrata, Gray. One specimen. 
Lygosoma smaragdinum, Less. Six specimens. 
,, cyanurum, Less . Two specimens. 
,, cyanogaster, Less. Two specimens. 
Lygosoma striato-fasciatum, sp. nov. 
Habit stout ; the distance between the end of the snout and the 
fore limb is contained once and two-fifths in the distance between 
the axilla and groin. Snout short, obtusely rounded. Loreal 
region vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced between a 
nasal and a supra-nasal, the latter being the smaller. Fronto- 
nasal one-fourth broader than long, forming an equally broad 
suture with the rostral and the frontal ; prefrontals small ; 
frontal heptagonal, the two posterior sides forming a right angle, 
in contact with the two anterior supraoculars, and rather shorter 
than the frontoparietals and parietals together ; four supraoculars, 
the second slightly larger than the third ; eight supraciliaries 
the first the largest j frontoparietals distinct, equal in length t^ 
