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relatively shorter head, slighter habit, smaller ear-opening, larger 

 ventral scales, smaller dorsal granules and more divergent series of 

 praeanal pores. 



Hahit slender, moderately depressed. Umbs rather stout; 

 hind limb reaching shoulder, fore limb a point midway between 

 eye and tip of snout ; tail slender, tapering, cylindrical, i4 times 

 as long as the head and body. 



Head somewhat broadly ovoid, moderately depressed, flat on 

 dorsal surface; forehead not concave; snout bluntly pointed, a 

 little longer than distance between eye and ear, flat above; ear- 

 opening small, its diameter not more than twice that of a dorsal 

 tubercle. 



Digits rather stout, transverse plates on ventral surface of 

 proximal phalanges well developed; tubercles below joints large 

 and prominent ; transverse plates on distal phalanges reaching 

 almost across digit. 



Lepidosis. —^nont covered with small, regular, rounded 

 granules considerably larger than those on occiput, the latter a 

 little smaller than those on back, having mixed with them small 

 rounded tubercles not much larger than granules on snout ; back 

 and dorsal surface of femora and shins covered with granules 

 among which are mixed numerous fairly prominent round tubercles 

 considerably larger than those on occiput ; dorsal surface of fore 

 limbs bearing small granules and tubercles; 11 upper, 9 lower 

 labials; nostril between rostal, first labial and several small scales; 

 rostral quadrilateral, deeply grooved in the upper half of its 

 middle line, three small plates running transversely across its 

 upper end, the two outer plates being much larger thari the inner 

 one ; mental large, produced backwards and sharply pointed ; two 

 large chin-shields, forming a long suture behind mental and 

 followed by several irregular plates; throat covered with small, 

 smooth granules ; ventral surface of body and limbs bearing small 

 leaf-shaped imbricate scales ; about 30 scales across mid-belly ; a 

 well-defined row of enlarged tubercles separating ventral from 

 lateral region on either side ; tail covered above with small, flat, 

 juxtaposed plates; those on its ventral surface larger, more ir- 

 regular and with a tendency to become imbricate. 



Male pores.— K widely divergent series of 9 praeanal pores 

 and, widely separated from them, 6 femoral pores on either side; 

 the latter not joined to praeanal pores by a row of enlarged 

 scales ; several large scales in fork of praeanal series. 



' Colouration.— T>orsQ\ surface dark brown, marbled with a 

 paler shade and with numerous narrow irregular, zig-zag black 

 cross-bars on back ; many of the dorsal tubercles white ; a black 

 band extending from eye to ear on either side and connected with 

 its fellow across back of occiput ; ventral surface pale brownish ; 

 tail banded with alternate bars of grey and dark brown, those of 

 the latter shade being the broader. 

 Typj—^o. 17275 Kept. Ind. Mus. 

 Habitat.— Sikhim Himalayas (Darjiling) at low altitudes. 



