22 Catalogue of Reptiles. 



FAMILY LACERTID^. 



TACIIYDKOMUS, Daudin. 



12. T. sEXLiNEATUs, Daud. 



o, h. two specimens in 



spirit. Pegu. A Grote, Esq. 



Martaban. Major Berdmore. 



The specimen, formerly presented by myself from Mergui, is no 

 longer in the Museum, (J. A. S. XXIV., 715.) 



TROPIDOSAURA, Boie. 



13. T. Jerdoni, Blyth. 



Ojyhiojys Jerdoni, Blyth, (J. A. S., XXII., p. 653.) 

 a. type specimen in spirit. Mhow. Dr. Jerdon. 



Mr. Blyth's description is so meagre and inaccurate that I here give 

 my ovn\. It will be seen that this interesting lizard is not an Ophiops, 

 but belongs rather to Tropidosaura of which one species is known from 

 Java. Nostrils in the ridge of the face, lateral or subsuperior, perfora- 

 ted in a moderate nasal, followed by two small postnasals, one above 

 the other, both together hardly equalling the nasal. Loreals two, the 

 second very large, and separated by some small scales from the eye. 

 Seven upper labials, four first large ; fifth largest, under the orbilf, 

 sixth and seventh small. Lower labials seven, small band-like. Lowef 

 rostral large, and four pairs of very large chin shields. Scales of 

 back lanceolate, acutely keeled ; in twenty-four rows ; (keeled in 22.) 

 Scales of belly smooth, broadly hexagonal, in six rows. The supra 

 abdominal row of scales smooth, larger than those above them. Toes 

 5 — 5 long, slender, curved, unequal, serrated above and below. Sides 

 roughened with keeled scales. Scales in front of limbs large, behind 

 smaller, all sharply keeled. Tympanum distinct, eyelids none. Eye- 

 brows keeled. Superciliaries large, divided in two. Vertical and 

 occipitals normal. Post occipitals squarely truncate behind. Nasals 

 contiguous. Supernasal and frontals about equal to each other. All 

 the head shields longitudinally plicated. Ear surrounded with granular 

 scales. Femoral pores twenty, interrupted on the pubes, 10 in each 

 thigh in a gently curved line. Pores pierced in the posterior angle of 

 the scales. One very large quadrangular prseanal. Tail surrounded 

 by equal verticiliate keeled scales. 



The present colour of the specimen is brownish (bronze, Blyth) with 

 four ill-defined rows of dark spots down the back. A well defined pale 

 streak separating the outer rows. A pale median streak also indicated. 



FAMILY ZONURID^. 



PSEUBOPUS, Merrem. 

 14. P. GRACILIS, Gray. 



Ophiseps tessalatns, Bh/th, 



J. A. S., XXII., p. 055. llangoon. Purchased. 

 a. h. Type specimens, in spirit. 



