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have 8 upper labials and a smaller rostral. Nikobar specimens 

 10 upper labials and a larger rostral. A Nikobar specimen had 

 most of the tail posteriorly reddish brown. 



Grows to 21 inches (tail 16.) 



Inhabits Java, and the Nikobars, but not India Proper. 

 Stoliczka suggests if the " Pondiclierry " specimen of Dum et 

 Bibron may not have really come from the French Missionaries 

 on the Nikobars via Pondiclierry. Probably so — 



B. indica, Theob. 



Scales round the body in more than 50 rows ; those on the 

 back largest, irregular ; on the belly not larger than the rest. 

 Two or three enlarged scales between the eye and tympanum. A 

 sub-obsolete indistinct spine at the posterior extremity of 

 the superciliary ridge. A minute seemingly recurved spine 

 behind the last, equidistant from eye and tympanum, and three 

 long erect isolated spines on the neck. Two or three rows over 

 each orbit of large superciliary scales separated on the crown 

 by one or two small scales only. An oblique fold in front of the 

 shoulder lined with minute black scales. Limbs long and slender. 

 Hind toe laid forward reaches to the nostril. Colour muddy 

 olive, whitish below. A white streak from below the eye to the 

 tympanum. 



Length 9-50, (tail 7-00). 



Inhabits Southern India. 



Calotes, Cuvier. 



Nasal separated from the labials by two rows of small scales. 



Body and sides covered with equal scales, regularly arranged. 

 The tips of those on the sides directed backwards and upwards. 

 Dorsal crest of non-united species. Gular sack slightly developed. 



A. — A fold before the shoulder. 



C. nemoricola, Jerdon. 



A detached spine in front of two or three small ones on either 

 side of the nape. Dorsal crest extending over one-third of the 



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