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habit and shorter limbs. Colour pale bronze, black-spotted ; 

 spots long and streaky; from nose to tail a long black band, 

 on either side, white margined above. Scales in 30 longitudinal, 

 and 28 rows between limbs. Colours display the same seasonal 

 variation as carinatus. Length of Indian specimens collected 

 by Blanford. Body 21 ; tail 3-6 = 57 ; but I have seen Burmese 

 specimens. Body 3'2 ; tail 4-2 = 7*4. This species was united 

 with carinatus (rufescens) by Cantor, who regarded it as the 

 young, but in addition to other differences, it is oviparous, 

 whereas carinatus is viviparous. 



Inhabits Bengal, Central India, Assam, Kachar, Arakan, 

 Birmah, and the Malayan Peninsula, and is not unlikely co-ex- 

 tensive with carinatus. 



E. trivittatus, Gray. 



Closely resembles carinatus, but the head is shorter and higher. 

 Scales with three median keels, with two indistinct lateral ones. 

 Scales in 36 longitudinal, and 40 — 42 rows between limbs. Colour 

 above olive brown, with three narrow equidistant greenish 

 Avhite bands, margined with blackish brown, with a lateral band 

 below passing through the ear, all five bands continued less 

 distinctly on the tail. Length. Body 325 ; tail 475 = 8*00 

 inches. 



Inhabits Jaulnah, Central India (Jerdon) ; the Dekkan. (Sto- 

 liczka). 



E. septemlineatus, Blanford. J. A. S., 1872, Pt. II., p. 360. 

 A smaller species than carinatus. Scales three keeled. Ear 

 opening small, with two or three small lobules in front. 

 Scales in 30 longitudinal, and 28 rows between limbs. Colour 

 above brownish black, with seven equidistant narrow white 

 stripes, three dorsal, the rest lateral, the upper lateral stripe 

 running from the superciliaries, the lower from the upper labials. 

 The stripes vanish on the tail. Plates of the head with pale 

 margins. Hind legs white-spotted. Beneath white. A single 

 specimen only taken, measures nearly four inches. 

 Inhabits South-Easterfi Bcrar. 



