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with the tail perfect, which is a rare circumstance in this reptile. 

 The largest specimen, with the tail imperfect, has the body 5" 3'" 

 in length ; and the measurements of the perfect specimen are, body 

 4" 3'", tail 9" 3'". The dorsal scales are in sixteen rows from fold to 

 fold, of which the dorsal ten or twelve are very strongly keeled. The 

 youngest specimen has only a few obscure dull brown spots on the 

 back ; but the larger one is marked by irregular bright blue wavy 

 cross bands margined anteriorly with black. It occurs at Darjeeling 

 at 3500 feet. 



Euprepes macularius, Blyth ; Gthr. I.e. p. 81. 



Supranasals separated from each other by the single prefrontal, 

 which forms a small suture with the vertical. The fifth upper labial 

 is below the orbit, and much longer than high. Opening of the ear 

 of moderate size, with a tubercle in front. Scales with from five to 

 seven keels ; twenty-eight to thirty longitudinal rows round the body, 

 and thirty transverse series between the axils. Fore limb when laid 

 forward reaches to the middle of the eye ; and the hind limb covers 

 more than two thirds of the interval between the axils. 



Dark brown above, with eight narrow longitudinal broken black 

 lines produced by linear black spots, or with eight lines of dark 

 brown spots beginning over the shoulder, sometimes restricted to 

 lower region of back, at other times entirely absent. A broad black 

 band, spotted with white, begins behind the eye, and is continued to 

 the thigh, where it is resolved into dark brown lines, which are pro- 

 longed on to the side of the tail. Outside of limbs white-spotted ; 

 upper labials white, margined with brown. In the month of August 

 below and behind the shoulders suffused with orange. Length, 

 adult 2-f, tail 3-|,=5i inches. 



Specimens from the Central Provinces of India have no traces of 

 black lines, but are sometimes spotted on the posterior half, but in 

 others they are without spots. Y\\§ is the prevailing number of keels, 

 although a few can be detected with seven. The brown line of the side 

 is not well marked, and is nearly broken up into black spots, among 

 which a few white ones are interspersed. Specimens from Raipur 

 have much the same character as the foregoing; and, indeed, the 

 southern specimens have the brown band along the side, much more 

 feebly marked than in specimens from Assam, which was in all like- 

 lihood the locality from which Blyth obtained his type. Specimens 

 from Sirgooja, which lies as it were halfway between Upper Assam 

 and the southern Indian localities, have nearly all the coloration of 

 the Assam ones, although the black spots do not unite to form con- 

 tinuous dorsal lines. The further south we proceed the more uni- 

 form do the colours appear to become. 



This species does not appear to attain the size of E. rufescens, 

 with which it could never be confounded ; and my largest specimen 

 out of twenty-seven is 5£ inches in length. 



It appears to be a widely spread form ; and I have it from Goalpara, 

 Assam, Cachar, Sirgooja, Bilaspur district, and S.E. Berar and 

 Bhandara, Central Provinces. 



