11. TROPIDOPnORTTS. ' 363 



Tympanum nearly as large as the eyo-opcninp;. 29 scales round 

 the middle of the body ; laterals and median dorsal scries smallest ; 

 dorsals and laterals rhoniboidal, strongly keeled, not mucroiiate ; 

 vontrals smooth. A pair of largo pra}aiials. The hind limb reaches 

 the wrist. Subdigital lamella) smooth. Tail compressed, a little 

 longer than head and body ; upper caudal scales similar to the 

 dorsals, not spinose. Brown above, with, large transverse yellowish 

 spots ; a series of small yellowish dark-edged round spots along 

 each side ; a yellowish spot on the forehead ; lips dark brown, with 

 yellowish vertical lines ; lower surfaces yellowish, throat marbled 

 with brown : tail brown with yellowish spots. 



niilliin. millim. 



Total length 116 Pore limb 15 



Head . . .' 12 Hind limb 22 



Width of head 7 Tail 62 



Body 42 



Southern China. 

 a. Ad. Plongkong ? Sir J. Bowring [P.]. 



7. Tropidophorus cochinclimensis. 



Ti'opidophorus cocincinensis, Dum. i^- Bihr. v. p. -550, pi. Ivii. fig. 1 ; 



Gilnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 189, and Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 77. 

 microlepis, Gilnth. II. cc. pp. 188, 76, pi. x. fig. A, 



Upper head-shields striated ; a single frontonasal, longer than 

 broad ; pra^frontals forming a median suture ; frontal as long as 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together ; four supraoculars, first 

 longest ; six supraciliaries anterior to the fourth supraocular, which 

 borders the eye : frontoparietals shorter than the interparietal ; 

 fifth upper labial largest and entering the orbit; an azygos postmental. 

 Tympanum nearly as large as the eye-opening. 30 scales round the 

 middle of the body, laterals smallest ; dorsals and laterals rhomboidal. 

 strongly keeled, ending in a sharp projecting point : ventrals 

 smooth, gulars feebly keeled. Three (or two) large prreanals. The 

 adpressed hind limb reaches the elbow. Subdigital lamella) smooth. 

 Tail compressed, a little longer than head and body ; all the caudal 

 scales, except the median lower series, strongly keeled, spinose, the 

 keels of the three upper series strongest, forming continuous serrated 

 ridges. Brown above, with lighter dark-edged transverse spots ; 

 small light spots on the sides ; lips brown, with whitish spots ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 158 Fore limb 20 



Head 17 Hind limb 28 



Width of head .... 11 Tail (reproduced) . . 72 



Body 69 



Cochinchiua, Siam. 

 a. Ad. Camboja. M. Mouhot [C.]. (Type of T. microlepis.) 



