Cahrifa. 



197 



Yg. Godaverv Valley . 



$ Sevaglierrv 



„ Foster Hill, Nilgherries 



cJ Carnatic 



Hgr. 



(^ Ceylon . 



1. Length from snout to vent (in millimetres). 2. Scales and plates round 

 middle of body. 3. Transverse series of ventral plates. 4. Gular scales in a 

 straight line. 5. Femoi-al pores (right and left if differing). 6. Lamellse under 

 fovxrth toe. 7. Anterior upper labials (right and left if differing). 



Habitat. — Peninsular India, as far north as S.E. Berar and Chauda. 

 The type specimen, preserved in the Paris Museum, is from the Coast 

 of Coromandel. Also recorded from Ceylon, on the authority of the 

 Drs. Sarasiu, hut without indication of the locality.* 



2. CABEITA JEEDONII. 



Cahrita jerdonii, Beddome, Madras Monthly Journ. Med. Sc. 1870, 

 p. 34 ; Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix, 1870, p. 348, and xlviii, 

 1879, p. 112; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 71 (1887), and Faun. Ind., 

 Eept. p. 173 (1890). 



Body moderately depressed. Head moderately depressed, li to If 

 times as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the 

 centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 3^ to 4 times in length 

 to vent in males, 3|. to 4^ times in females ; snout obtusely pointed, 

 with sharp canthus and feebly concave loreal region, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; a sharp keel below the eye. Pileus 2 to 

 2i times as long as broad. Neck as broad as or a little narrower than 

 the head. The hind limb reaches the ear or between the ear and the 

 eye in males, the collar or between the collar and the ear in females ; 

 foot 1^ to 1^ times as long as the head ; digits feebly compressed. 

 Tail 1^ to 2^ times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields rugose with keels and granular asperities, 

 frontal, parietals and interparietal eaih with two keels ; nostril 

 pierced between 3 shields ; nasals forming a suture behind the 

 * Cf. F. Muller, Verh. Nat. Ges. Easel, viii, 1887, p. 286. 



