MANUAL OP THE NiLAGIRI DISTRICT. 171 



PART IL 



Lizards, Snakes and Frogs. 

 REPTILIA. 



(By Lieutenant. Colonel R. H. Beddome, M.S.C, Consei-vator of Forests, 

 Madras Presidericy.) 



LIZARDS. CHAP. VIII, 



PART II. 



ORDER SAURIA. — 



Zoology. 



VARANID^. 



Lizards. 



Varanus dracoena, L. ... Southern slopes. 



„ lunatus, Gray. ... Western slopes. 



LACERTID^. 

 Cabrita Leschenaultii, D. et B. ... About the foot and lower slopes 



on eastern and southern side. 

 „ Jerdoni, Bedd. ... Do. 



Ophiops Jerdoni, Blyth. ... Do, 



SCINCID^, 

 Euprepes carinatus, Schn. ... Slopes everywhere. 



„ macularius, Blyth. ... Do. 



„ brevis, Guntli. ... Walaghat. 



„ trilineatus, Jerd. ... Eastern slopes. 



Hinulia Dussumieri, D. et B. ... Foot of Sisapdra Ghat and west- 



ern slopes. 

 Ristella Rurkii? Gray. ... Walaghdt and western slopes. 



„ n. sp. (an undescribed sp... Foot of Sisapdra Ghat, 

 with 2 large frontals). 

 Mocoa bilineata, Gray. ... Ootacamand, very common under 



stones. 

 Riopa albopunctata, Gray. ... All the slopes. 



„ Hardwickii, Gray. ... Do. 



„ punctata, L. ... Do. 



GECKOTID^. 



Gecko Anemaleam, Gunth. ... Slopes above Gajalhatti. 



Hemidactylus trihedrus, Band. ... Slopes, common. 



,, maculatus, D. et B. ... Do. do. 



„ Pieresii, Kelaarf. ... Do. do. 



Leschenaultii, D- rA B. Do. do. 



