7. MABUIA. 183 



labial ; no postnasal ; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than the 

 second ; frontonasal as long as broad or a little broader tluin long, 

 in contact with tlie rostral and usually also with the frontal ; latter 

 as long as or a little longer than the frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the second, or tirst and second, supraoculars; 

 four supraoculars, second largest ; five supraciliaries, third longest ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, larger than the interparietal, which entirely 

 separates the parietals; a i)air of nuclials ; four, excei)1ionally three, 

 labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrowed in- 

 fenorlv. Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little smaller than a lateral 

 scale, without or with a few very indistinct lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, 

 nuchal, and lateral scales sharply quinque- or septemcarinate ; 20 to 

 30 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs 

 meet or overlap, but the hind limb never reaches quite so far as the 

 elbow. Digits short ; subdigital lamelhe smooth. Scales on upper 

 surface of tibia mostly bicarinate. Tail once and one fourth to once 

 and three fourths the length of head and body. Brown or olive- 

 brown above, sides darker and usually with black- edged spots ; back 

 uniform, or black- spotted, or with one or two black longitudinal 

 lines ; sometimes two light lateral lines on each side, well marked 

 only on the neck ; lower surfaces yellowish (in spirit). 



milliiu. inillim. 



Total length 147 Fore limb 16 



Head 14 Hind limb 22 



Width of head .... 11 Tail 84 



Body 49 



Central and K^orth-eastern India, Burma, Indo-China. 



a. Ad. Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Ad. Madras. Capt. Beavan [P.]. 



c-d. Ad. Balarangams. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



e-f. Ad. Godavery valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.;. 



g. Several spec. Kear Uuma.serdiam, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P." . 



Godaverv valley. 



h-m. Ad. & hgr. Bhundara District, Cen- W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



tral Provinces. 



n-o. Ad. Near Ellore. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P. 



p. Ad. Sadya. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P." 



q. Ad. Khasia. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



r. Ad. Gamboja. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



s-t. Ad. ? W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



u. Ad. ? [Afghanistan]. Dr. Griffith. 



34. Mabuia brevis. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 

 Euprepes (Tiliqua) brevis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soe. 1875, p. 225. 



Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid 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 ; 

 frontonasal broadly in contact with the rostral, less extensively with 

 the frontal ; latter as long as or shorter than the frontoparietals and 



