86 SAURIA. 



Limbs rather feeble : the fore legs extend nearly to the eye, the hind legs not quite half- 

 way up towards the axil ; the third hind toe is one-fifth shorter than the fourth. 



Brownish olive above, greenish below. A broad brown or black band runs from the 

 shoulder along the upper half of the side, enclosing below a whitish longitudinal line. A 

 pair of black lines along the back, arising on the nape ; these lines are brown or less distinct 

 in half-grown specimens, and entirely absent in young ones. 



Discovered by Jerdon under stones on the summit of the Nilgherries. Length 5 inches, 

 the head and trunk measuring half of it. 



EUMECES HIMALAYANUS. (Plate X. fig. H.) 



Supranasal shield none ; the lower eyelid is transparent. 



The single praefrontal forms a suture with the rostral ; prefrontal, postfrontals and vertical 

 meet in a point. Four superciliary shields ; a pair of anterior occipitals ; front margin of the 

 ear very distinctly denticulated. Twenty-six longitudinal series of scales round the trunk, 

 forty-one transverse series between the axils of the fore and hind legs. Vent covered by a 

 pair of large anals ; subcaudals broad. 



Limbs moderately developed : the fore legs extend to the eye, the hind legs more than 

 halfway up towards the axil ; the third hind toe is one-fifth shorter than the fourth. 



Greenish olive above, with intei'rupted whitish lines and series of blackish dots ; sides with 

 a dark band, which has a narrow greenish-white edge above and a broad one below ; the 

 lower parts greenish, each scale with a darker margin. 



Several specimens were procured by Messrs. v. Schlagintweit in the Himalayas, and are 

 now in the British Museum : two from Kashmir, two from Garhval, and one from Simla. 

 The largest is 4 inches long, the tail measuring half. 



Figure H of Plate X. represents the head of the largest example, of twice the natural size. 



EUMECES SCHLEGELII. 



Tiliqim schlegelii, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 153. pi. 25. fig. C. 

 Supranasal shield none ; the lower eyelid is transparent. 



The single pniefrontal forms a suture with the rostral as well as with the vertical. Front 

 margin of the ear without any tubercles or lobules. Scales striated, but not keeled, in twenty- 



