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ORDER fir. SAUROPIIIDir. 



Fam. 1. SciNciD.'n. 

 Gen. 1. TiLiQUA. 

 The toes of this genus are simple, cylindrical, not fringed. Body 

 fusiform, and the head covered with one rostral, one anterior 

 and two posterior frontal, one anterior vertebral, two occipital, a 

 posterior vertebral, and four posterior occipital shields. 



1. T. car inula. 



Scincus carinatus. Schneid. Hist. Ainph. ii. 183. Daiid. 



Rept. iv. 304. 

 Icon. ? 



Inhabits gardens, Dumdum. 



A specimen preserved in spirits agrees well with Schneider's des- 

 cription of his second specimen. In a drawing of the species, the 

 animal is represented as golden green on the back, with a golden 

 yellow band commencing at the nose, and running over the eye- 

 brow along the side of the body, a little behind the hind legs ; the 

 sides are purplish, darker above near the yellow streak ; the scales of 

 the uj)per parts are strongly ribbed, and those of the lower parts 

 sexangular and polished. 



There is a drawing of a Seine, supposed by the natives to be 

 the young of this species, which is pale golden green above and 

 yellow beneath, with a pule whitish border and scattered black 

 spots on each side, just over the legs. 



2. T. trivittuta. n. s. 



Supra pallide brunnea ; dorso fasciis flavis tribus lalis nigro- 

 niargiiKitis ; lateribus pallidis maculis nigiis raiis; subtus albida. 



Inhabits gardens, Dumdum. 



Length, 8-j ; Hody, 4^ ; Tail, 4 inches. 



Above pale yellowish-brown, with three broad yellow bauds on 

 the back edged Avith black; the bauds are two series of scales 

 broad, and have two series of scales between each of them, the yel- 

 low situated on the two inner halve* of the two series, and the 

 black occupying the other outer halves of the scales ; sides paler, 

 with a few black spots ; beneath whitish ; under the eye a black 

 streak. The tail banded like the back, very nearly as long as the 

 body ; cars denticulated in front ; toes rather short. From a draw- 

 ing. 



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