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series, obtusely pointed, stroui^ly keeled and shortly miKrouate. 33 

 to 38 plates and scales round the middle of the liody. Preanal plate 

 moderately large, sometimes not broader than long, smooth or feebly 

 bieariuate, rarely longitudinally biseeted,* with smaller keeled plates 

 in front and on the sides. 



Upper surface of limbs with rhomliic keeled scales and granules. 

 One or two femoral pores on each side.t 24 to 29 lamellar scales 

 vmder the fourth toe. 



Caudal scales strongly keeled and shortly mucronate. the keels 

 forming four very strong ridges on the tipper surface of the basal 

 [jurt ; the whorls nearly equal in length, the fourth or fifth containing 

 14 to 18 scales. 



Brownish olive above, sometimes with darker s]iots which may form 

 lines along the keels of the dorsal plates ; often a yellowish or greenish 

 white dorsolateral streak, starting from the sui^erciliary edge ; a dark 

 streak from the nostril to the eye aud a dark baud ou the temple and 

 side of neck, often continued on the body, where it may be sj)otted 

 with greenish w'hite ; a light streak from the lower eyelid, through 

 the lower f)art of the ear-opening, to the shoulder, sometimes continued 

 on the side of the liody. A black streak ou the hinder side of the 

 thigh. Lower parts yellowish or greenish white. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



1. V . type, Taiwanfoo. 2. J, type, 0. Formosa. 3. 9, type, C. 

 Formosa. 4. (J, Taipeh, co-type of T. ^fjneijeri. 5. ^, Puukiho. 

 6. Q , Kaushirei. 



* In one of the types from C. Formosa. — Two keeled plates in 3 specimens 

 and two smooth plates in 1 of T. stejnefieri, two keeled plates in 4 specimens 

 and two smooth plates in 2 of T. formosanus (out of 178 specimens) accordina' 

 to Van Denburgh. 



t Van Denburgh found two pores on one side in one specimen referred by hira 

 to T. stejnegeri ; the specimens with a single j^ore are (with 9 exceptions out of 

 284 specimens) regarded as typical T. formosanus. 



