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hind limb reaches sHghtly beyond the elbow; digits a little 

 compressed, with smooth lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, uniform or with five or seven narrow 

 whitish longitudinal lines; flanks anteriorly dark, light-spotted; 

 lips greenish-white, spotted with brown. Lower parts greenish- 

 white ; scales of throat sometimes with brown lateral edges. 

 Length of head and body 63 mm.; tail 132 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Sumatra (Simbolon in Raja Mts., Deli!, 

 Sungei Lalak in Indragiri); Java (Tengger Mts. 1200 M.)? '); 

 Borneo (Kuching)? ^). — Malacca. 



2. Mabuia rugifera (Stol.). 



TUiqtia 7-uglfera^ Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXXIX 1870, p. 170, pi. X, 



fig- 3- 

 Mabuia 7-ugifera^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 184 (s. syn.). 

 Mabuia rubi'icoUis}^ Bavtlett, Croc. Liz, Borneo Sarawak Mus. 1895, p- 89. 



Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening very 

 small, oval, horizontal, with lobules round its border. Nostril 

 in the posterior part of the nasal; usually no postnasal; supra- 

 nasals present; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with 

 the rostral and with the frontal; latter longer than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, second largest; five 

 or six supraciliaries; frontoparietals larger than the inter- 

 parietal; parietals separated; a pair of nuchals; fifth or sixth 

 upper labial largest, not narrowed inferiorly and below the 

 eye. Body with 26 scales round the middle; nuchal, dorsal 

 and lateral scales with five strong keels, eight or ten ventral 

 series smooth. Tail one time and two thirds the length of head 

 and body. Limbs strong with keeled scales, the hind limb 

 reaches the elbow; digits with smooth lamellae below. 



Dark olive-brown above, uniform or with 5 or 7 light long- 

 itudinal lines. Lower parts greenish-white (in life orange-red). 

 Length of head and body 65 mm.; tail 120 mm. 



Habitat: Nias; Mentawei Islands (Sipora!); Java (Tengger 



1) A specimen, indicated by Boettger (Offenb. Ver. Naturk. 29 — 32, 1892, 

 p. 118) as M. rugifera Stol. with 28 series of scales. 



2) Specimens, indicated by Brown (op. cit.) as M. rugifera Stol. with 28 or 

 29 series of scales, postnasal present. 



