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in the Dong Rek Mountains. It does not differ in colouration from 
the adult. 
13. LIOLEPIS BELLIANA, Gray. 
Hight examples. Koh Chang and Klong Yai, 8. E. Siam; Ok 
Yam, Franco-Siamese Boundary on Coast. 
This well-known and beautiful ground-lizard was common every- 
where in open country where grass and sandy soil would permit it 
to burrow. Such being the surroundings of most villages, it was 
brought in numbers by small boys for trifling rewards. 
These lizards are much sought after by the country people as 
an article of diet, and are caught usually by means of a cleverly 
constructed spring noose placed across the entrance of the bur- 
row they inhabit. They are also hunted for by gangs of youths, who 
beat up their haunts with sticks, killing them if possible as they dash 
away, or, if they succeeded in reaching their holes, digging them out 
and then despatching them. 
These creatures must be very fertile, as in spite of constant perse- 
cution, their numbers never seem to diminish. 
14. VARANUS NEBULOSUS, Gray. 
Mocquard, Les Reptiles de l’Indo-Chine, p. 33 (1907). 
A young example from Koh Chang. Total length 590 mm. Top 
and sides of head as far as the eyes still retaining the juvenile red- 
dish yellow colouration, but no traces of black chevrons on the nape. 
Common in Siam in ever-green jungle. 
This lizard, like the preceding one, is also hunted for the sake of 
its flesh. 
15. MaABviA MACULARIA, Blyth. 
Twenty examples from Koh Kut and five from Ok Yam and 
Klong Yai, S. EH. Siam. 
Head and shoulders rusty brown; rest of upper surface, limbs 
and tail, earthy ; upper labials and spots on sides, yellow ; chin, throat, 
chest and sides of neck, red. 
The largest specimen measures:—Snout to vent 67, tail 110 
mm. The series from the mainland has 28-32 scales round the body, 
that from Koh Kut, 30-34. 
16. MABUIA MULTIFASCIATA, Kuhl. 
Laidlaw, P.Z.S., 1901, part 1, p. 310; Mocquard, Les Reptiles de 
? Inde-Chine, p. 38 (1907). 
