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longitudinal rows with several rows of small scales on the sides. 

 Femoral pores 32-34 in a continuous line. Colour ashy grey 

 with five or six indistinct rows of dark spots across the back. 

 Subcaudals enlarged, entire. 



Inhabits the Salt Range of the Punjab. 



Stoliczka remarks that " Eichwald's figure gives only one 

 pair of enlarged chin shields." 



Section B. Tail cylindrical. 



G. fasciolatus, Blyth. 



Naultiniis fasciolatus, Blyth. 

 J. A. S., B., 1860, p. 114. Anderson, Februaiy 1871. 

 Body finely granular with numerous enlarged trihedral tuber- 

 cles verticillately arranged. Tail flattened, with gi-anules and 

 tubercles and with enlarged subcaudals. Nostril between four 

 shields ; rostral, first labial and two nasals. Colour grey. A dark 

 horse-shoe band from either eye across the occiput and a second 

 on the nape followed by 7 blackish cross bands on the body and 

 13 on the tail : those on the body posteriorly margined with 

 white. Toes and claws five, with from 4 to 9 transverse plates. 

 Femoral pores 5 to 6 on each thigh. 



Length, body 215 ; tail 2-75 = 4-90 inches. Type not adult. 

 Inhabits the Western Himalayas (Subathu), 



G. variegatus, Blyth. 



Naultinus variegatus Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1859, p. 279. 

 Anderson, P. Z. S., February 1871. 

 Body finely granular, with numerous enlarged trihedral tuber- 

 cles. Tail cylindrical with granular and tubercles, verticillately 

 arranged, and with enlarged subcaudals. Nostril between the 

 rostral, first labial, nasal and two small tuberculoid shields pos- 

 teriorly placed. 



Colour grey, beautifully spotted and marked with black, set 

 off by subdued white. Tail banded above with black and 

 the terminal third blackish. A broad dark horse-shoe band from 

 eye to eye over the occiput. The back vT^ry irregularly banded 



