26 Catalogue of Beptihs. 



8th largish. Lower eyelid scaled, with a transverse row of large plates. Ears 

 largish, patulous, rliombic, with two projecting scales in front. Tympanum 

 sunken. Lower rostral followed by two transverse gular scales, and 3 pairs 

 of chin shields. Scales of body moderate, subequal, smooth. Back covered 

 with a single row of transverse scales, from a little behind the shoulder to 

 the loins. At base of tail two rows, soon followed by a single row of sub- 

 caudal scales. Pneanal scales two, large. Two central rows of ventral 

 scales, appreciably larger. Scales in 23 rows round the body. 



Colour pale brown (in spirits). A dark band from snout to loins, down 

 the centre of the back and along either side. Lateral stripes white dotted; 

 the central one narrower than the row of vertebral scales. Tail mottled, 

 dark markings somewhat annularly disposed. 



Body 4.0, tail 5w 5 = 9.75. 



Elbow to toe 0.50. Knee to toe 0.70. 



a. two adults in spirits. ' 



No record of habitat ov donor. 



28. P. LATicEPS, D. et B. 



rt. adult in spirit. North Carolina. Be v. J.Fitzgerald. 



MOCOA, Gray. 



29. M. FORMOSA, Blyth, J. A. S., XXIL, 651. » 



M. pulcher, Blyth, musemn label. ♦ 



a. one large specimen,type Mirzapore. Major AYrough- 



of Blyth's description. ton. 



1). c. smaller. "Wuzeerabad. L.C.Stewart,Esq. 



Dr. Gunther is quite correct in surmising that this species has a trans- 

 parent lower eyelid and no supranasal, and it is, therefore, correctly referred 

 to Mocoa. 



30. M. SiKiMENSis, Blyth. 



Eumeces Indicus, Gray, apud Gunther in part. 



a. five specimens. Sikim. Major Sherwill, 



W. Theobald, 

 Junior, Esq. 



Br. Gimther appears to have confounded two species under this name, as 

 of many autlientic Himalayan specimens none exceed four and a half inches, 

 though Dr. Gunther gives the length as 8 to 10 inches, probably from his 

 China specimens erroneously identified. The limbs of the species are much 

 smaller than J]!. Indicus, Gray, apud Gunther. The fore limbs barely reach 

 beyond the gape, the hind a little more than halfwa3'- to the axilla. Nothing 

 but Dr. Gunther's perverse determination to depreciate or ignore the labours 

 of naturalists in India, could have led him into uniting such dissimilar 

 species as this and JE. Indicus. The size of this si)ecies, and the transparent 

 lower eyelid of Mocoa were adequate warnings against such an error. 



