LACEKTID^. 



tudiual scries : flanks granular ; ventral shields rhomboidal, imbri- 

 cate, all or part keeled. Digits subcylindrical, with smooth, tuber- 

 cular subdigital lamellte, the distal of which is much enlarged. 

 Inguinal pores ; no femoral pores. Tail extremely long, cylin- 

 drical. 



Eastern Asia ; Japan ; Indian archipelago. 



Synopsis of tJie Species. 



First large supraocular in contact with 

 the loreal ; temporal scales strongly, 

 dorsals very strongly keeled 1. sexlineatus, p. 4. 



A small shield between the supraocular 

 and the loreal ; temporal scales ob- 

 tusely, dorsals very strongly keeled. 2. tachydromoides, p. 5. 



A small shield between the supraocular 

 and the loreal ; temporal scales 

 smooth, dorsals moderately keeled . . 3. amure)isis, p. 6. 



1. Tachydromus sexlineatus. 



Tachydromus sexlineatus, Gray, Cat p. 52. 

 Tachvdromus sexlineatus, Daud. Rept. iii. p. 356, pi. xxxix. ; Bronyn. 



Mem. Sav. Etr. Ac. Paris, i. 1806, p. 627, pi. ii. fig. 8 ; Bum. ^• 



Bihr. V. p. 158 ; Hallow. Froc. Ac. Philad. 1800, p. 495; Gilnth. 



Rept. Brit. Incl. p. 69, pi. viii. fig. C ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Sac. 



Beny. xli. 1872, p. 87. 



quadrilineatus, Daud. I. c. p. 252. 



ocellatus {Cuv.), Gtier. Icon. R. A., Rept. pi. v. fig. 3; D^lvern. 



R. A., Rept. pi. xi. 



typus, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 389. 



sexlineatus, var. seueofuscus, Peters, Man. Bert. Ac. 1863, 



p. 405. 



meridionalis, Giinth. I. c. p. 70, pi. viii. fig. D. 



Supraoculars in contact with the supraciliaries ; the large anterior 

 supraocular in contact with the loreal ; temporal scales strongly 

 keeled. Six or eight longitudinal series of strongly keeled shields 

 on the nape, four on the back, median pair largest ; ten or twelve 

 longitudinal series of strongly keeled ventral shields (lateral scries 

 included). One or two (to six, according to Stoliczka) inguinal 

 pores on each side. Greenish or brownish above, with metallic 

 gloss ; a more or less distinct whitish, black-edged streak from the 

 supraciliary edge along each side of the back to the base of the tail ; 

 the black band'bordering the light streak interiorly begins on the 

 loreal region and passes through the eye and above the tympanum ; 

 sometimes two narrow black lateral lines instead of the black 

 band ; sides frequently with small round light spots ; lower surfaces 

 yellowish or greenish. 



