1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. ljO 



Mergui, are not separated under this locality ; and it is impossible to 

 say whether they were of this" species. 

 Hub. Debrooghur, Assam. 



Riopa anguina, Theobald, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond vol x 

 p. 27. 



Lower eyelid transparent. The body very much elongated and 

 slender; limbs small and feeble. The distance between the axil 

 and snout is contained two and a half times in the length between 

 the fore and hind limbs. Tail little more than the distance between the 

 vent and fore limbs. The fore limb when laid forwards falls con- 

 siderably short of the ear, and equals the distance from the ear to 

 halfway between the eye and the tip of the snout. The hind limb 

 is the distance between the axil and the ear, and is in excess of the 

 distance between the ear and the snout. Snout moderately short 

 and pointed ; supranasals forming a broad suture behind the rostral • 

 the frontal and vertical suture widely separating the first frontals' 

 Vertical moderately elongated, lateral margins convergent to a point 

 behind. Two pairs of occipitals. Four large superciliaries with 

 two small scale-hke shields behind the last. Seven upper labials. A 

 large broad shield behind the mental, with two large shields behind 

 the former, forming a long suture with each other and succeeded bv 

 a small triangular shield with a large one on either side of it. Ea'r 

 without denticulations. Twenty- two series of smooth scales round 

 the middle of the body ; the scales are rather broad, and rounded 

 behind ; sixty-five rows of scales between the fore and hind limbs 

 Uniform olive- brown above, with or without a line of black spots' 

 along the side of the back, margined above by a pale narrow band 

 sometimes obscurely spotted with white on the side behind the ear 

 and above and behind the shoulder. Upper surface of the tail 

 yellowish brown ; under surface yelfcwish. 



Prome, Upper Burmah. 



Dr. Stoliczka* has recently described another species of this 

 genus, R. lineolata, with a scaly eyelid and twenty-eight series of 

 scales round the body. 



Gecko smithii, Gray; Gthr. I. c. p. 103. 



Granular above, the granules flat and arranged somewhat in 

 transverse rows on the body and tail ; many large circular flattened 

 tubercles with a small central prominence interspersed among the 

 granules, smaller on the occiput and temporal region, and lar^e on 

 the body, and arranged in transverse rows on the tail at regular 

 intervals. Sixteen low upper labials, and twelve deep lower ones • 

 two large shie^s behind the mental with an azygos one behind them' 

 with two small ones on either side of it ; a line of four lar«-e shields 

 between the second, third, and fourth lower labials, with about five 

 parallel shields below the remaining labials. The granules on the 

 occiput and between the eyes small, those on the eyelid large and 

 •Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1S70, vol. xxxix. p. 175. 



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