MABTTIA. 



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and body. Bronzy olive above, sides dark brown ; a light, black- 

 edged streak on each side, from the prisfroatal and along the supra- 

 ciliaries to the anterior third of the back, where it gradually dis- 

 appears ; a light streak from below the eye to the shoulder ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



miUiiu. niillim. 



Total length 150 Fore limb 16 



Head 12 Hind limb 22 



Width of head 8 Tail U5 



Body 43 



Central India. 



a. Ad. Godavery valley. W. T. Blanfurd, Esq. [P.]. 



29. Mabuia novemcarinata. 



Euprepes novemcarinatus, Anders. Journ, As. Soc. Beny. xl. 1871, 

 p. 12. 



" Supranasals forming a suture behind the rostral. Eyelid scaly. 

 Praefroutals and vertical (frontal) meet in a point. Seven up2)er 

 labials, the fifrh the longest. Ear obliquely oval, with two or three 

 strong prominent denticulations ; 32 longitudinal lines of scales 

 round the body and 42 transverse lines between the axils. Scales 

 with nine keels, the three central ones strongly marked. The fore 

 limb reaches to the anterior angle of the eye ; hind limb as long as 

 two thirds of the distance between the axils. Above olive-brown, 

 with four or five narrow longitudinal black lines along the back. 

 A deep brown band from the nostril through the eye and above the 

 ear, along the side and on to the base of the tail, with a moderately [?] 

 white band above far over the supercilium along the side of the 

 back ; another through the upper labials and ear to the shoulder, 

 •where it changes into the pale greenish yellow of the side. A very 

 faint broken blackish line from the angle of the mouth to the 

 shoulder, and three or four from behind the fore limb along the 

 side of the belly. Limbs with five lungitudinal black lines with 

 scattered white spots." 



From snout to vent 98 millim., tail 110. 



Mandalay, Burma. 



30. Mabuia beddomii. 



Euprepes beddomii, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Bencj. 1870, p. 73 ; Gunth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 225 ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 52. 

 (Tiliqua) septemlineatus, Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 



1870, p. 360, pi. xvi. figs. 7, 8 ; fheob. I. c. p. 50. 



Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyehd scaly. Nostril behind the 

 vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial ; no 

 postnasal ; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than the second, in 

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind the 



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