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the back, from the nape to the base of the tail. A broader 
dark-brown band from the eye over the tympanum, along the 
side, A broad, pale-yellowish band below it from below the 
eye through one half of the tympanum along the sides to the 
groin. A palish dusky band from the angle of the mouth, over 
the shoulder, and along the side below the yellowish band. Up- 
per surface and sides of tail pale, uniform brownish-olive. All 
the under parts yellowish. 
Hab, Amritzur ? Purchased from a Bokhara merchant who 
stated that he obtained it at Amritzur. 
Blyth* in a notice of some Reptiles from the Panjab writes of 
the next form which I purpose to consider, ‘“‘a well marked 
second species of Dr. Gray’s genus Laudakia, founded on Agama 
tuberculata of Hardwicke’s Ill. Ind. Zool., if not rather a new 
genus affined to Zaudakia (in which case this may bear the name 
Plocederma, nobis).”” This specimen is still in the Museum and was 
referred by Theobald to Laudakia tuberculata, Gray, which he con- 
sidered generically distinct from Stell’o, and which it does not appear 
to be. The examples of the genus Ste/lvo in the Indian Museum 
agree with Dr. Giinther’s figure of S. cndicus which he afterwards 
referred to S. tuberculatus, Gray. There are, however, two well 
marked species of the genus in India as Dr. Stoliczka has shown me 
from the rich materials in his possession, and as he is to describe the 
result of his observations, I shall proceed to point out the charac- 
ters of the type specimen of Blyth’s supposed genus Plocederma, 
but, to enable me to do so, it is necessary for me to remark that the 
two species recognized by Dr. Stoliczka are distinguished by the 
size and distribution of the enlarged scales of the dorsal region. 
One species S. tuberculatus has the scales considerably and generally 
smaller than the other and more numerous, those on the back of 
the neck being scarcely enlarged, while in the other, larger-scaled 
form, the scales in that region partake to a certain extent of the 
nature of the dorsal scales and are prolonged more or less to the 
occiput. Jam inclined to the conclusion that Blyth’s Plocederma 
is a young individual of Dr. Stoliczka’s large scaled form, but the 
following are the characters of Blyth’s S. melanurus. 
* Journ. As. Soc, Beng, xxiii, pp. 737,738. 
