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N. Annandale : Himalayan Lizards. 



[Vol. I, 



middle anterior digit. The dorsal surface pale grey, marbled with 

 a darker shade ; the ventral surface immaculate white. 



lycngth of head . . 

 Breadth of head . . 

 I^ength of body 

 I/ength of tail 

 Breadth of tail at base 

 Length of anterior limb 

 lycngth of posterior limb 



13 mm. 



33 



45 



5 



12 

 18 



I take this opportunity to figure another Himalayan Gecko 

 {Gymnodactylus himalayicus) recently described by me {Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1906, p. 287). 



2. Acanthosaura major (Jerd.). 



I took a fine male of this rare species just outside the town of 

 Simla at an altitude of about 8,000 feet. The coloration was very 

 bright but otherwise agreed with the published descriptions ; there 

 was a patch of pale lilac scales under the throat. The lizard was 

 surming itself on a bare bank by the roadside and appeared to be 

 very sluggish. 



I 3. Acanthosaura kumaonensis , sp. nov. 



Several specimens of both sexes from Naini Tal and Mussoorie. 

 Type Reg. No. Ind. Mus. Reptiles, 15755. 



Diagnosis — 



Small, slight ; the body feebly compressed ; the tail more 

 than twice as long as the head and body, hardly compressed ; the 

 adpressed hind limb reaching the tympanum. Snout slightly 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis and super- 

 ciliary ridges angular ; forehead sloping, slightly concave. Dorsal 

 and medial crests continuous, reduced in both sexes to a single row 

 of strongly keeled scales ; no parallel rows of keeled scales on the 

 back or sides. Scales on dorsal surface of head of different sizes, 

 strongly keeled, not enlarged oh the superciHary regions ; six or 

 seven upper and six lower labials ; dorsal and lateral scales of two 

 kinds, VIZ., large, lozenge-shaped, strongly keeled tubercles and 

 smaller imbricating scales with much feebler keels, the two being 

 mingled irregularly ; ventrals leaf-shaped, imbricate, strongly keeled, 

 larger than throat scales ; caudals strongly keeled, imbricate, of 

 different sizes above, sHghtly enlarged below. Dorsal surface and 

 sides marbled and blotched with various shades of grey and brown, 

 with a series of large, dark angular marks on the mid-dorsal line ; 

 a broad, dark triangular band extending from the eye to the ear, 

 its apex directed towards the eye ; upper and lower lips vermi- 

 culated with black, belly white, sometimes sprinkled with minute 



