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pale olive gvey, witli three pale-spotted dark bands down the 

 back. Tail speckled with dusky. Below white. 



Length, body 3-75 ; tail 5-25 = 9-00 inches. 



Inhabits the outer hills between Jhilum and Kashmir. 



E. Blythianus, Anderson. 



Mahouia Blythiana, And. Proc. As, Soc, B., Sept. 1871. 

 Supranasals transversely oblong, forming a suture behind the 

 rostral. Nostril between a small anterior triancrular nasal and a 

 posterior sub-quadrangular one. A pentagonal loreal, with a 

 vertically elongated postnasal in front, and two quadrangular 

 shields behind it and under the eye. Eight upper labials, the 

 seventh and eighth largest, the anterior margin of the last on a 

 line, with the posterior angle of the eye. Scales on the body in 

 30 longitudinal rows, the vertebral pair consisting of enlarged, 

 transversely elongate hexagonal scales, between the nape and the 

 root of the tail. A single row of enlarged subcaudals. Colour 

 olive brown, with three dark brown longitudinal lines from the 

 nape to the base of the tail. A broader dark band from the 

 eye over the tympanum down the side, bordered beneath with a 

 pale yellowish band to the groin, with a dusky band below it. 

 Under parts yellowish. 



Length, body 3*5; tail 600 = 9'5 inches. 



Inhabits Amritsar, Panjab, according to the vendor of the type, 

 a Bokhara merchant. 



Chiamela, Gray. 



Body long and slender. Limbs feeble, with four toes only. 



C. lineata. Gray. 



Anterior frontal large single. Posterior frontals small, separat- 

 ed by the vertical. Anterior occipitals united into an obtusely 

 triangular shield. Nostrils lateral in a single elongated shield. 

 Two loreals. Lower eyelid transparent. Ear small, smooth. 

 Scales smooth in 22 longitudinal rows, and in 82 — 84 transverse 

 rows between axil and groin. Colour above, iridescent bright 



