228 THE LIZARDS OF THE GENUS TROPIDOPHORUS IN SIAM. 
posed anterior loreals, the upper being the larger, and a series of small 
scales (3 to 6) between the posterior loreal and the supralabials. 1 
There are from 28 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, 
the laterals being smallest and directed obliquely. Hach example has 
three praeanal shields. : 
The type of 7. cochinchinensis is from Cochin China, and was 
possibly obtained at a considerable distance from Chantaboon. — It dif- 
fers from the type of 7. mivcrolepis, and from all my specimens, in 
having only two praeanal shields, and it may be, when more is known 
about these lizards in Indo-China, that the two forms will have again 
to be separated. 
Two gravid females brought home and kept in captivity gave 
birth to 7 and 9 young respectively, at the end of April. Total length 
at birth, 56 to 60 mm., head and body, 26 to 30. Colour, light brown 
above, with indistinct darker markings; sides blackish with small 
white spots ; below whitish, throat thickly mottled with grey. Ven- 
tral scales strongly keeled, the mothers having these shields quite 
smooth. 
| Gunther's figure gives only two loreals, an anterior and a posterior, 
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