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third labials, but separated from them by two rows of scales. 
Seventeen upper and fifteen lower labials. A median line of 
slightly enlarged keeled scales behind the snout, and a similarly 
enlarged plate on the occiput. Two to three rows of enlarged 
conical, spined scales from below the eye to the tympanum. A 
group of tubercular, spinous scales at the anterior margin of 
the ear. <A fold at the under margin of the tympanum pro- 
longed to the neck, on the under surface and sides of tvhich there 
are numerous folds, those in the latter locality being here and 
there covered with groups of spines. A pit before the shoulder 
from the upper anterior margin of which a fold is prolonged over 
the shoulder to the sides of the back with small spines occurring 
on it at intervals ; a smaller and more indistinct fold between the 
latter fold and the shoulder with a few large spinous scales. 
The opening of the ear is very large and patulous. The tail is 
slightly dilated at its base and depressed, long and slender and 
more than twice as long as from the snout to the vent. The wrist 
reaches as far forwards as the snout, and the hind limb just touches 
the vent. The third finger is nearly the length of the fourth 
which is the proportion in the corresponding toes. A small callous 
patch of about 20 scales in the centre of the abdomen, with a 
preanal series of two rows of callous scales. A deep depression 
behind the vent. The dental formula of the upper jaw is pre- 
maxillary teeth 8 +- 3=6 ; maxillary teeth 13 + 13 = 26; total 82. 
Snout to vent 38” 2’; vent to tip of tail 7” 9,’” head 10’”; for limb 
1” 8’” ; hind limb 2” 8”; fourth toe 7’”. 
arene in spirit, I quote from Blyth, ‘Olive grey, probably olive 
green and changeable when alive ; the head and body speckled 
over with dark scales, and also with some scales paler than the 
rest ; the long slender portion of the tail dusky black and the 
lower parts pale and buffy white, apparently suffused with crim- 
son when alive ; the throat and below the shoulders beautifully 
marbled with greyish black, probably blue in the living animal.” 
Blyth states that the locality from whence the specimen was ob- 
tained was uncertain, but-that he believed it to come from Kashmir. 
Mr. Theobald, however, who collected the specimen states in his 
~ Catalogue that it came from Simla. 
