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pterygoid bones^ so as to prevent the lower jaw from moving from side to 
side, and that in the species under consideration the hinder teeth of the 
upper jaw has a series of teeth about half the length of the outer series 
placed on a ridge just on the inner edge of the outer teeth, leaving a groove 
between the two series for the lower jaw to fit into. This Skull will 
doubtless form the type of a new genus, which I propose to call Sphce- 
nodon. 
Description of a new Genus of Ophisaiirean Animal, discovered hy the 
late James Hunter, Esq., in Mew Holland. 
Gen. Delma. Fam. Scineidce. 
Head narrow, covered with four pair and three odd central plates ; chin 
and throat with small scales ; ears distinct, pervious ; body and tail taper- 
ing, subcylindri cal, covered with moderate nearly uniform, smooth, regular, 
six-sided, slightly, imbricate scales ; abdomen with four series of plate, 
the two central series being the broadest ; vent with three subanal scales ; 
subanal pore none ; fore-feet none ; hind-feet rudimentary, conical, com- 
gressed, placed in a groove by the side of the vent ; tail tapering, with 
three series of cross plates beneath. 
Fraser's Bipes. Delma Fraser i. Bright olive-brown, beneath paler ; 
head and lips black, with four narrow cross lines, one between the nostril 
and the eyes, two just behind the eyes, the third broader over the eyes, 
and the last edging the occiput. Length of head 4 lines ; of head and 
body 2 inches, 8 lines ; of tail (and reproduced) 3 inches, 8 lines. Inhab. 
New Holland. British Museum. 
Description of the Species of Porcellana, in the Collection of the 
British Museum. 
Polished Porcellana. Porcellana polita. Purplish brown polished 
punctulate ; carpus above flat, front edge with three long serrated teeth ; 
hinder edge with a spiny ridge near the end ; forehead triangular, pro- 
duced, the margin rather concave. Length of the thorax 7 ; breadth 7^ 
lines. 
Hairy Porcellana. Porcellaria hirsuta. Red brown, rugulose vel- 
vety ; leg and abdomen fringed with long hairs ; caspus above flat, centre 
rugulose, front edge with five acute triangular teeth ; hinder edge with a 
series of conical, incurved, short spines ; front edge of claw crenulate 
at the base ; forehead triangular, bent down, with a small spine over the 
front edge of each eye. Length of thorax 1 1 ; breadth 1 1 lines. 
Squamose Porcellana. Porcellana Galathina, Bose, crust. 1, t. 6, f. 
2. Red brown, with close-set cross wrinkled, edged with short rigid hairs ; 
carpus and claws convex ; front edge of carpus with six blunt, incurved, 
triangular broad teeth ; hinder edge with a series of small protuberances; 
forehead triangular, truncated, concave, with a raised denticulated edge, 
and a spine over the back of each eye. Length of thorax 7| ; breadth 
7 lines. North America. 
