84 SAURIA. 



I have compared this species with specimens from Japan and North America, and it is of 

 no small interest that the Japanese specimens are specifically identical with those from 

 North America, both constantly differing from the Chinese ones in having an additional 

 small shield between first loreal and nasal. They also have somewhat smaller scales than 

 those from China. In other respects all these Lizards are extremely similar. I have 

 examined numerous specimens from Ningpo, Chikiang, Canton, and from the islands of 

 Formosa and Chusan (type of Tiliqua rufoguttata^ Cantor). This species attains to a length 

 of 12-14 inches, the head and trunk measuring 5. In Persia it is represented by Scincus 

 auratus of Schneider, a species extending westwards to the north of Africa. 



Figure F of Plate X. represents the head of a half-grown specimen from Ningpo, in which 

 the postfrontals are more widely separate than is usual, the prsefrontal being slightly in 

 contact with the vertical. 



Mabouia maculata. 



Lissonota maculata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 653. 



This species is apparently allied to Mabouia chinensis, — the genus Lissonota being founded 

 on altogether insufficient characters. 



" Lower eyelid scaly; supranasals (frontinasals) small. Subcaudals larger than those of the body ; two 

 large triangular anals. Greyish olive-green, with a double row of irregular dark spots along the nape and 

 back, and a median line of the same along the tail. On each side a dark band is continued throughout, 

 commencing at the nostrils; and beneath this is a narrow pale streak, then a narrow dark one, and, 

 finally, a few dark spots on the sides of the throat and belly. Upper surface of the limbs variegated 

 thi"oughout. Lower parts greenish white. Head and body 1| inch ; tail probalily about the same, but 

 the tip is wanting. Fore limbs § inch ; hind limbs |^ inch ; distance apart of fore and hind limbs 1 inch. 

 From Assam." 



EUMECES, JFiegmann. 



Scales thin, smooth, polislied, not keeled. Tail more or less long-, rounded, 

 without any keels or spines. Nostril in a single small shield. Limbs four, 

 each with five toes. Palate without any teeth, the palatal notch being- placed 

 far backwards, behind the level of the eye. 



The species of this genus are very numerous and spread over nearly all the different 

 countries between, or near, the tropics ; the Indian species may be referred to the following 

 subdivisions : — 



