lIERPETOLOn Y. 329 



M. ExiorA, Antlamans. 



Ear witliout lobules. Four supcrciliarics. A pair of anterior or-eipitals, tho 

 azygos sliiold behind them rather large. 28 rows of scales round the body. -Ij 

 between the axilla and groin. Limbs feeble. Tlie fore legs reach to the eye, the 

 hind legs to half way to the axilla. A dark brown baud from the snout to the tail. 

 A pale greenish yellow band from the eye to the tail, and a broad brown band through 

 the eye and car to a little beyond the hind limbs. JJelow pale yellowish-brown. 

 Tail olive, with a dorsal and lateral series of minute black dots. Limbs spotted 

 brown and olive. 



Inhabits ilomien. 



RiopA, Gray. 



Eody long. Limbs feeble. 



a. Loirer eyelid setilij. 



11. ALBOPUNCTATA, Gray. 



Lower eyelid s<'aly. Tail large and eylimlrical. Limbs feeble, giving the lizard 

 a snake-like look. Tail shorter tlian body. Colour brown, with six fine black lines 

 down the back and tail. Sides white-spotted, (irows to four and a half inches. 



E.. LINKOLATA, Stol. 



Like R. albopunctata, but the tail is longer than the body. The centres of all 

 the dorsal and lateral scales are pale, giving rise to pale longitudinal lines. Length 

 three and a half inches. Inhabits Martaban. 



b. Loiver eyelid icitlt a ironnparent disk. 

 11. ANr.rixA, Tlieobald. 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. Five occipital shields, the central one 

 being nearly as large as an anterior one. Colour brown abov'e, white below. No 

 stripes or dots. Length four inches. 



Inhabits Pegu. 



E. CTAXELLA, Stol. 



Like R. anguina, but the central occipital shield small. Colour brownish 

 olive, with a few white spots on the neck and behind the shoulder. Size and 

 habitat same as the last. 



DiBAMUs, Dmncril ct Bihron. 



Limbs in male 2, lodged in an obli(pio cavity. Females limbless. 



D. NicoBARicrs, Fitzinger. 



24 rows of scales round the body. Colour dark brown, paler below. Grows to 

 6 inches, and inhabits the Nicobars. 



Family Geckotidse. 

 Toes adapted for pneumatic adlicsion. 



a. Adhesih plates of feet undivided. 

 Gecko, Daiidin. 

 G. GUTTATT7S, Daud. 



Tail without any enlarged subcaudal plates. C(jlour olive grey, slaty over the 

 head, with four or five transverse white bauds. Belly white, body, limbs and belly 

 red-spotted. 



Grows to about a foot. Inhabits Eastern Bengal, Burma and the Malayan 

 peninsula. 



