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II. Four pairs of cliin-shields. 



A. Two or three inguinal pores on each side. 



1. Three inguinal pores ; dorsal scales in eight series, of which 



the two middle are smaller than the rest. 



T. amnrensis, Ptrs. Amoorland. 



2. Two (three) inguinal pores ; doi'sal scales in six series, those 



of the two middle ones smaller than the others ; twenty- 

 two or twenty-three in a longitudinal .series between the 



axils T, tachydromoides, Schleg., = T.ja- 



pontcuSf D. & 1j. Japan. 



3. Two inguinal pores ; dorsal scales in six series ; twenty-seven 



in a longitudinal series between the axils. 



T. Haughtonianus, Jerd. Assam. 



B. One inguinal pore. 



Dursal scales in eight series, subequal in size. 



T. IVolteri, Fisch. Corea, Kiu Kiang, 



5. Lygosoma Reevesii^ Gray. 



A specimen in the collection has twenty-eight series of 

 scales round the body, and therefore conies nearest to the 

 scink wliich I have described as Eumeces modestus. How- 

 ever, Mr. Boulenger has already stated that the number of 

 series of scales varies in these lizai'ds from twenty-eight to 

 thirty-two *. Like Mr. Boulenger, I am unable to separate 

 these Chinese scinks from the North- American L. later ale. 



6. Lygosoma elegans, Blgr. 

 One specimen. 



7. Gecko japonicuSj D. & B. 

 Two specimens. 



8. Calamaria quadrimaculata^ D. & B. 



Four adult specimens. Their abdomen is scarlet ; all 

 possess a black, median, subcaudal band, which occupies 

 nearly the whole width of the posterior subcaudal scutes, 

 being much narrower anteriorly. Tail very obtuse. 



The British Museum possesses also a young specimen 

 from Hongkong. 



9. Simotes chinensis, sp n. 

 Scales in seventeen rows. Eight upper labials, the fourth 



• Thirty-four series of scales, as stated in the ' Reptiles of British 

 ludia,' p. 88, for the type of Z. llecmsii, is an error for thirty-two. 



