igoy.] Records of the Indian Museum. 151 



5. Ranatigrina, Daud. 



Localitic s—SoondriiaX and Katmandu, Nepal (4,000 to 5,000 

 feet), 



"6. Rana limnocharis , Boie. 



Localities—Soondrijal, Nepal ; Bhim Tal, Kumaon. 

 [A specimen was also taken at Dharampur in the Simla hills 

 in May.— N. A.] 



7. Rana formosa, Gthr. 



Locality — Soondrijal, Nepal. ■ 



LACERTILIA. 



By N. Annandale, D.Sc. 



The collection includes examples of nine species of this group, 

 of which species two are new. The others are common Himalayan 

 forms, the distribution of which is rendered considerably clearer by 

 these specimens. The occurrence of the two allied skinks Lygosoma 

 himalayanmn and L. sikkimense in the same locality is of interest ; 

 while the eastern Umits of the range of Agama tuber culaia can now 

 be fixed with tolerable certainty. 



I. Hemidactylus nepalensis , sp. no v. 



One male specimen from Katmandu, Nepal : altitude 4,500 

 feet. Reg. No. Ind. Mus. Reptiles, 15779. 



Diagnosis — 



Allied to Hemidactylus platyurus (Schneid.) and to some extent 

 intermediate between this species and H. garnotii, D. and B. 



Head and body depressed ; tail slender, flat, tapering, denti- 

 culated at the edges. A distinct fold of skin along the sides, mea- 

 suring about I mm. in breadth, and another along the hind limbs 

 posteriorly. Head long, slender, the length of the snout slightly 

 exceeding the distance between the eye and the external ear ; the 

 extremity of the snout rounded, Toes webbed at the base ; all the 

 digits well developed. Dorsal surface of head and body covered 

 with minute rounded tubercles which are almost homogeneous, but 

 are smaller on the snout than elsewhere ; dorsal surface of tail 

 covered with minute imbricating scales ; subcaudals large ; ventral 

 surface of belly covered with small imbricating leaf-shaped scales 

 (about thirty in a transverse Hne across the middle of the body) 

 changing gradually into minute tubercles on the throat. Nostril 

 between the rostral and three small scales ; eight upper and eight 

 lower labials ; one pair of chin shields meeting behind the mental 

 and followed by several small scales on either side. An almost 

 straight series of thirty femoral and prseanal pores interrupted in the 

 middle line. Three lamellee under the inner, and seven under the 

 middle posterior digit ; four under the inner, and six under the 



