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 exMninafian, whim' is roba51 anothe proof of its youth: ' It was �taken -anI preserved by Mr. 'Jmes Hunter, R.N., who or. compared- CaPtain King as surgeon during the Mer- maid's third voyage, and-has be presented by him to the British- Museran. 7. DswmaA DOUAWA. , -*m..d Mu*tmo, .D'H. V'af. iy. 199. 210. Enhydris dohtus, Mem, $a. ,/mpA. 140. Icon. Z, ac..,m. M#s. iy. t. 57. f; 2.' The 'series'of small hexagonal sields 5n the 'abdSmen of this' curious animl a'p 'pqars to be foFmed of two series'of scales united laterally.' The lenh of the specimen brought home by'Captain lg exceeds four feet/. Th figure by M.* Laclde seems to be too short, but his description %,ees admirably with our specinen, which has ben pre- sented t6 the British Museum. 8. LBPOPH8* PUNC?ULA?US, (n. L) . 1%1. squam/s le/bu apice #ni-i, detafh, 'spin'doesalls tn' a,daibv ; cauda quadatali; teui, ,qumb quali&us. Scales uniform, pale bMwn, with a. minute black dot im- pressed on the apex: body slender, compressed: abdo- minal scutm rather brohd. 'The 'seris of scaleson the side' next o the ' ventral - plates ovate and Muut; those on the sides narrow, linear, in tlve' series; the series'of scales along the centre of the back long, triangular.' nis arrangement of the scales gratlually assumes an miform appearance on the neck close to the 'head, where they �I lmve adopted Mr. Bcll's MS. name for this genus since his paper was read at the Zoological club of the Linnean Society, fore the 'publication of my genera of Reptiles in the Annals of Phfiobophy,. whet6 1 erroneously con'sidereal it hs synonymous with Dr.'Leach*s genus Macrosoma imtad m htu/b.--J. E

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