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anals, sub-caudals broad. Scales in 22 longitudinal series. Limbs, 

 feeble. The fore legs extend nearly to the eye, the hind leg rather 

 more than half way to the axils of the fore. The fourth hind 

 toe is a quarter or a little more shorter, than the third. Greenish 

 olive above and very shining. A narrow black band sometimes 

 broken into sj)ots down the centre of the back disappearing 

 on the tail and irregular or wanting on the neck. Sides blackish ; 

 belly pearl coloured ; tail bluish beneath ; the black band down 

 the back is sometimes entirely absent." 



Inhabits the Travankor hills, and the Wynaad. 



M. Stoliczkae, Stein. Reise der Novara. Rep., p. 45. 



Ear opening longish with 3 — 4 very small scale-like tubercles, 

 prominent and rounded off, the central largest. Four superciliary 

 plates. A pair of front occipital plates. Eight upper labials. The 

 sixth under the orbit larger than the fifth, but smaller than the 

 seventh. Loreal region concave. Scale small in 34 longitudinal 

 rows. A pair of very large anal plates. Tail rounded with a 

 row of enlarged plates below. The two central rows of ventrals 

 somewhat enlarged. Colour of back brownish dark green, with 

 reticulated black lines or seven interrupted longitudinal rows of 

 very small black spots, or in young specimen the back is spotted 

 pale with dark margins to the spots. Sides bluish green near 

 the rump. Belly brownish grey, or yellowish white. The scales 

 are dark edged as in Himalayana. 



Inhabits the Spiti valley at 12,000—14,000 feet. Teste 

 Stoliczka. 



M. Blythii, Stein. Reise der Novara. Rep., p. 46. 



Scales in 30 longitudinal rows. Ear with several small rounded 

 scales in front. Upper labials 7 ; the fifth which enters the 

 orbit is four cornered, longer than high and nearly twice as long 

 as each of plates before it. Two large anals. Back brown with 

 three narrow blackish bands and numerous squarish bright spots, 

 each accompanied by a similar black one. A blackish broad 

 band margined above and below with white, on each side of the 



