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twice as long as these shields, not narrowed below. Ear-opening 

 a little smaller than eye-opening, with 2 or 3 long pointed lobules, 

 upper largest. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales with 7 or 9 sharp 

 keels, two of which are stronger than the others ; 34 scales round 

 the middle of the body, dorsals largest. The hind limb reaches the 

 wrist of the ad pressed fore limb. Subdigital lamellae smooth. Pale 

 olive above, with 4 longitudinal series of small blackish spots on 

 the body ; a broad blackish-brown lateral band beginning from the 

 nostril and passing through the eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 2-5 inches. 



Sab. Menhla, Upper Burma. 



205. Mabuia dissimilis. 



Tiliqua trivittata, Gray, Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, p. 227 ; id. III. Ind. 



Zool. ii, pi. Ixxvi. 

 Euprepis dissimilis, Hallow. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (2) xi, 1857, 



p. 78. 

 Euprepes monticola, Giinth. Eept. B. I. p. 80, pi. x, fig. C ; Theob.Cat. 



p. 52. 



Euprepes petersi, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 43 ; Theob. 1. c. p. 53. 

 Euprepes guentheri, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xlviii, 1879, p. 123. 

 Mabuia dissimilis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 175. 



Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided serai- 

 transparent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between 

 the rostral and the first labial ; no postnasal ; anterior loreal in 

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind the 

 rostral; frontonasal broader than long; prsefrontals forming a 

 median suture ; frontal in contact with the second supraocular only 

 (exceptionally with the first as well) ; 4 supraoculars, second 

 largest; 6 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually nearly as 

 long as the frontal, and larger than the inter parietal, which en- 

 tirely separates the parietals; usually no distinct nuchals; 4, sel- 

 dom 5, labials anterior to the subocular, which is about twice 

 as long as the neighbouring shields and not narrowed below. 

 Ear-opening oval, larger than a lateral scale, smaller than the eye- 

 opening, with 3 or 4 short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal 

 scales strongly bicarinate, nuchals and laterals tricarinate ; 34 to 

 36 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed 

 limbs overlap. Toes short ; subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail about 

 1| times length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, black- 

 spotted, and with 3 more or less distinct light longitudinal streaks, 

 the vertebral sometimes absent ; flanks white-spotted ; a short 

 horizontal white streak below the eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 3| inches ; tail 5J. 



Hob. Plains of Northern India, from Sind to Bengal, also in the 

 Western Himalayas (Chamba). 



206. Mabuia septemtaeniata. 



septemtseniatus, Hems, Mus. Senckenb. i, p. 47, pi. iii, 

 r. \ ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pwsia, p. 388 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 352. 

 Mabuia septemtaeniata, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 177. 



Euprepis 



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