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distinct ; tail somewhat compressed, ringed, with a middle row of shields 
beneath : B. sublevis, India. 
Hemidactylus depressus, mercatorius, and fasciatus, Gray, ibid.; the 
first two from Madagascar ; of the latter the habitat is unknown. 
Goniodactylus Boei, Gray, ibid. : from India. 
Tolarenta, Gray (nov. gen.), of the same family; the feet as in Agama, 
but head, nasal fossae, and eyes, show that the genus belongs to the 
Oeckones. S. Wilkinsonii (Savigny, Kept. .^Egypt. t. c. f. 3) ; Egypt. 
Cyrtodactylus ocellatus, ibid. p. 59 : from Tobago. 
Cyclura quinquecarinata, id. ibid. p. 59 ; Demerara ? 
The new genus Lophognathus, of the family of the Agama (Gray’s 
Zool. Mis. p. 53), is distinguished from Calotes only by the presence of 
two or three thigh pores, and two anal pores on each side ; L. Gilherti, 
from the north coasts of New Holland. 
The genus Diporiphora, Gray, ibid. p. 53, of the same family, is 
distinguished from Grammatophora only by two anal pores ; in habit it 
stands between Grammatophora and Calotes : D. hilineata, from the 
north coast of new Holland. 
Hatteria, Gray, ibid. p. 72, of the family of the Agama ; head four- 
cornered, covered with small scales ; throat with a cross fold ; nape and 
back have a ledge of compressed bristles ; body covered with small 
scales ; belly and under side of the tail have broad, four-cornered, un- 
quilled scales, in cross rows ; tail compressed, triangular, covered with 
small scales, and with a crest of broad bristles ; toes 5, 5, covered with 
small scales ; no thigh pores ; small anal pores : H. punctata, from New 
Zealand. 
SERPENTES. 
In opposition to the observation of Valenciennes, mentioned in the last 
report (p. 172), on the temperature in the hatching of the Python hivit- 
tata, Dumeril is of opinion, that the increased temperature is produced 
in the eggs of the snake, and is not to be ascribed to the influence of the 
brooding mother. (Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 5.) 
Aloysii Calori : De vasis pulmonum ophidiorum secun- 
(lariis obseryationes novse (Commentarii Acad. Bononiensis, 
Y. p. 395), with a lithographic plate. 
In the Biblioteca Italiana o sia Giornale di Letteratura, Scienze, ed 
Arti, compilato da varj letterati (tom. xcix. Milano, 1740, p. 163 and 306), 
is found a Catalogue Raisonne, describing the Snakes in the Museum of 
the University at Pavia, by De Filippi. Catalogo ragionato e descrittivo 
della Racolta de' Serpenti del Museo dell’ S. R. Universita di Pavia. 
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