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and is somewhat produced behind, slightly or nearly touching the vertical. The fifth upper 

 labial is below the orbit, and not much longer than high. Opening of the ear very small, 

 nearly entirely covered by the scales. Scales with three or more very slight keels each, 

 not denticulated behind, in twenty-eight or thirty longitudinal and in as many transverse 

 series. Praeanal scales not enlarged ; subcaudals rather larger than the scales on the side of 

 the tail. Limbs of moderate strength ; the third hind toe is one-sixth shorter than the fourth. 



Upper parts brownish, with about twelve narrow, irregular, black transverse streaks, each 

 black scale having a white spot. A whitish band along each side of the root of the tail. 

 Lower parts greenish olive. 



Young: the upper parts of the trunk black, with numerous, rather irregular, silvery 

 transverse bands ; shields of the head edged with black, and a black line edged with silvery 

 from the snout to the ear. Feet and toes rose-coloured. Tail brilliant scarlet ; loAver parts 

 whitish. 



This species is less numerous than E. rufescens ; it has been found on the Malayan Penin- 

 sula and on Prince of Wales Island ; a specimen in the Paris Museum is said to have been 

 captured in Java. Our largest individual is nearly 9 inches long, of which the tail takes 

 rather more than one-half. Cantor found eleven eggs in a female, similar to those of 

 E. rufescens. 



EUPBEPES MACDLARIUS. 



Euprepes macularius, BIyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 652. 



Mr. Blyth describes this species as follows : — 



" Like E. rufescens, but the scales of the upper parts 5-7-cariiiate. Bronzed olive-green above, pale 

 below ; the hinder half of back and base of tail above marked witli irregular reddish-brown spots, and a 

 broad reddish-brown lateral streak continued from the ear to the middle of the tail, marked throughout 

 with white, which tends to form continuous lines posteriorly. Terminal half of tail whitish." Length of 

 specimen 5;^ inches, of which the tail measures 3^ inches. Hab. Rungpore ? 



Euprepes trilineatus. 



Euprepes trilineata, Gray, Ann. if Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, xvii. p. 430. Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xxii. p. 479. 



A pair of very narrow supranasal shields ; the single praefrontal touches the rostral as well 

 as the vertical. The fifth upper labial is below the orbit, and much longer than high. 

 Opening of the ear small, with two more or less elongate lobules in front. Lower eyelid 

 with a transparent disk. Scales with six or seven strong keels each, in thirty longitudinal 



