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ORDER in. SAUROPHIDII. 



Fatn. I. SciNciDTE. 

 Gen. 1. TiLiQUA. 



The toes of this genus are simple, cylindrical, not fringed. Body 

 fusiform, and the head covered with one rostral, one anterior 

 and two posterior frontal, one anterior vertehral, two occipital, a 

 posterior vertebral, and four posterior occipital shields. 



1» T. carinata. 



Scincus carinatus. Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. 183. Daud, 



Kept. iv. 304. 

 Icon. ? 



Inhabits gardens, Dumdum. 



A specimen preserved in spirits agrees well with Schneider's des- 

 cription of his second specimen. In a drawing of the species, the 

 animal is represented as golden green on the back, with a golden 

 yellow band commencing at the nose, and running over the eye- 

 brow along the side of the body, a little behind the hind legs ; the 

 sides are purplish, darker above near the yellow streak; the scales of 

 the upper parts are strongly ribbed, and those of the lower parts 

 sexangular and polished. 



There is a drawing of a Scinc^ supposed by the natives to be 

 the young of this species, which is pale golden green above and 

 yellow beneath, with a pale whitish border and scattered black 

 spots on each side, just over the legs. 



2. T. trivittata. n. s. 



Supra pallide brunnea ; dorso fasciis tlavis tribus latis nigro- 

 marginatis; lateribus pallidis maculis nigris rat is; subtus albida. 



Inhabits gardens, Dumdum. 



Length, 8-^ ; liody, 4j ; Tail, 4 inches. 



Above pale yellowish-brown, witli three broad yellow bands on 

 the back edged with black ; the bands are two series of scales 

 broad, and have two series of scales between each of them, the yel- 

 low situated on the two inner halves of the two series, and the 

 black occupying the other outer halves of the scales ; sides paler, 

 with a few black spots ; beneath v, hitish ; under the eye a black 

 streak. The tail banded like the back, very nearly as long as the 

 body; ears denticulated in front ; toes rather short. From a draw- 

 ing. 



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