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border of eye to tip of snout in all specimens being a little less 

 than the diameter of the eye, while in ornata the snout is longer 

 than the orbital diameter (or fide Blgr.* sometimes equal to it). 

 Coloration widely different, habit more robust. 



Habit robust. Snout obttise, less than orbital diameter; lin- 

 gers slender, first much shorter than second ; toes slender, first 

 toe reaching to lower articular tubercle of second toe (not so 

 in ornata) ; tips of fingers and toes not swollen (same in Pegu 

 example) ; sub-articular tubercle prominent; two small sub- 

 equal metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being carried for- 

 ward along the body the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 the anterior border of the eye. Skin smooth. Back with a 

 faint inverted Y-shaped marking, a dark band along each side 

 very faintly indicated. Legs with faintly indicated cross bars. 

 No markings conspicuously prominent. 



Remarks : In coloration the small suite of Chinese examples 

 is singularly uniform and all differ very conspicuously from the 

 Pegu specimen in which the dark lateral zone is sharply de- 

 fined along its entire upper margin and furthermore is accent- 

 uated by a row of distinct elongate black dots which appear to 

 be associated with tiny dermal folds or excrescences which 

 may be due in part to the preservation. The line nevertheless 

 commences upon the snout, is continued across the upper eye- 

 lid, then along the whole side of the groin. This feature with 

 the longer snout and the different habit and differently pro- 

 portioned feet separate ornata from eremita, which moreover 

 is undoubtedly entirely confined to a temperate instead of a 

 tropical habitat. 



• Here, a-; is so often the case, it is extremely unfortunate that a single spec- 

 imen is not described and accurately specified. The description is drawn in gen- 

 eral terms probably or possibly from both Indian and Chinese examples and must 

 perforce include the peculiarities of specimens from these scattered regions. 

 Boulenger among others (Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 165) had specimens from Ning- 

 po, China, Cambodia and Madras before him. 



