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No. XVIII.— VIVIPAROUS HABIT OF THE COMMON INDIAN 

 SKINK {LYGOSOMA INDICA). 



I am not aware if this;lizard is known to be viviparous, but a specimen was 

 brought to me on the 19th of August in Shillong so extremely distended that 

 it was obvious some event of a domestic nature was impending. When cut 

 open, 9 perfectly formed young were found crowded together and completely 

 occupying the abdominal cavity. One of these measured 2§ inches, of which 

 the tail accounted for 1^ inches. 



This lizard is extremely common about Shillong, and I frequently saw it 

 abroad, and on many occasions disturbed it from beneath stones. I saw 

 many young, evidently this year's progeny in August and September, of a 

 length similar to, or little greater than, the unborn embryos referred to above. 



F. WALL, Major, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 

 Dibrdgarh, Assam, October 1907. 



No. XIX.— REMARKS ON THE AGAMOID LIZARD 

 (PTYCTOLjEMUS GULARIS). 



Reference to Boulenger's work, Fauna of British India, Reptilia and 

 Batrachia (1890, p. 117), makes it appear that this lizard is extremely rare, 

 since he remarks that only two specimens at that time were known — one (the 

 type) in the Berlin Museum, said to be from Calcutta, and a solitary specimen 

 in the British Museum from Sadiya, Assam. 



I was much surprised, therefore, when I found it an extremely common 

 species about Shillong, Khasi Hills (4,900 feet). I collected many specimens 

 which have been sent to the British Museum and our Society's collection. 



Sadiya, I may mention, the reported habitat of the solitary British Museum 

 specimen (in 1890), is on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, within a few 

 miles of the Himalayas, so that it is probable that the eastern ranges of these 

 Hills are within the limit of its distribution. Calcutta as a habitat, I think, 

 requires confirmation. The folds in the throat from which the specific name 

 of this species is derived are not black in life, but a very beautiful deep ultra- 

 marine, and the scales in the folds are minute and regular, giving an appearance 

 of velvet. There are two more or less conspicuous narrow black lines 

 radiating from the eye, a lower running to the gape and an upper to above 

 the gape, in other respects they accord with the description given by 

 Boulenger. 



F. WALL, Major, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 

 Dibrugarh, Assam, October 1907. 



No. XX.— REMARKS ON THE AGAMOID LIZARD (CALOTES 



JERDONII). 



This lizard is a common species in the Khasi Hills about Shillong. It is 

 arboreal in habit as its colouration suggests. Those I encountered were 



