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nasal shields, by the presence of granules on the inner side of the supraorbital shields and by 

 colouration. 



From Western Turkestan Severtzoff l quotes, besides E. variabilis and E. cceruleo-ocellata, 

 (?E.velox), two species which he calls E. intermedius, Strauch, and E. erythrurus. Neither of 

 these species, so far as I know, has been described ; E. erythrurus, Severtzoff himself suggests, 

 may be the young of E. velox. Two species of Scapteira and Lacerta stirpium are also 

 included in the list of reptiles obtained in Western Turkestan. 



E. vermictilata may be the same as E. pylzowi collected by Przevalski in the deserts of 

 Alashan, 27 degrees of longitude east of Yarkand. The principal characters of the two 

 species are similar, and so is the colouration, but, judging from the figure, the toes of the fore 

 foot are considerably shorter in E. pylzowi. 



Family 

 13. ETJMECES T^NIOLATUS. 



Eurylepis taniolatus, Blyth : Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, xxiii (1854), p. 740. 

 Plestiodon seutatus, Theobald : Cat. Kept. Mus. As. Soc., p. 25. 

 Eumeces seutatus, Jerdon : Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, p. 73. 

 Mabouia tasniolata, Anderson : Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1871, p. 184. 

 Eumeces tceniolatus, Stoliczka : Proc. As. Soe. Bengal, 1872, pp. 75, 88. 



1, Chakoti on the road from Mari to Srinagar, in Kashmir. 



This is a very much larger specimen than the types, and so much stouter, that at first 

 I was much inclined to consider it distinct. But the proportions are the same, and the only 

 structural distinction I can find is, that there are twenty-three rows of scales round the body 

 instead of twenty-one. This amount of variation is commonly found in scinques. 



The length of the specimen is 13 inches ; tail, probably renewed when young, 6 ; circum- 

 ference round the middle of the body, 3 ; head, 0'95 long ; fore limb, T35 ; hind limb, 1'75, both 

 to the end of the claws. The colour noted by Dr. Stoliczka on the living specimen is brown 

 above, with a dark central stripe, upper parts of sides darker and with small white spots in longi- 

 tudinal rows ; the upper portion of the limbs also spotted, lower portion of sides greenish, 

 this colour extending across the ears to the lower labials ; feet below pale fleshy, the whole 

 of the lower surface deep waxy yellow. In spirits the middle of the back is very little darker 

 than the lateral portions. 



14 MOCOA HIMALAYANA. 



Eumeces himalayanus, Giinther : Kept. Brit. Ind., p. 86. 



Euprepes himalayanus, Steindachner : Novara Expedition, Reptilien, p. 45. 



Eumeces sikkimensis, partim, Jerdon : Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, p. 73 ; Anderson : Proc. Zool. 



Soc., 1871, p. 158; Blyth? 

 Mocoa himalayana, Stoliczka : Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, xli, p. 127. 



1-10, Mari, Punjab ; 11, 12, between Mari and Srinagar ; 13-25, Sonamurg ; 26-32, Mataian. 



1 Turk. Jev., p. 71. 



