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one. This is the length of the much-bleached specimen in this 

 museum labelled E. macularias, from the Salt range, where it was 

 discovered by Mr. Theobald, who informed Mr. Blyth that " the 

 species attains more than double the size, and when alive is remark- 

 able for the beauty of its prevailing rosy carneous hue." Blyth 

 had more than one specimen before him when he wrote ; and as 

 he had already identified E. hardwickii (Gymnodactylus lunatus, 

 Blyth *), he was in a position to judge of the specific distinctness of 

 the two. The type specimen, however, is the only one 1 have been able 

 to discover. Theobald recognized it two years after he discovered it, 

 and unhesitatingly referred it to E. macularius, although, as has been 

 already mentioned, the specimen is of uniform colour throughout. 



This is a true Eublepharis, with the fingers and toes and eyelids 

 of that genus. 



It is distinguished from E. hardwickii by its finely granular skin, 

 much more widely separated oval tubercles, and longer fingers. In 

 E. hardivickii the large tubercles on the surface of the head are not 

 separated by smaller ones, but arc hexagonal and in close apposition, 

 producing a tessellated appearance. In E. macularius, however, they 

 are widely separated from each other by the granules as far forward 

 as the front of the eye. 



This form appears to be the western representative in India of 

 E. hardivickii, which is spread over the eastern half of India from 

 Madras to the south, and through Bengal to Chittagong. Two of 

 the museum specimens of E. hardwickii are from Chaibassa ; and I 

 have since received a specimen from the neighbourhood of Calcutta. 



Draco dussumieri, D. & B. ; Gthr. I. c. pp. 125, 12C. 



In three specimens from Travancore the scales have no trace of 

 keels ; and in one the membrane is strongly reticulated to the sides, 

 the external portion being darkest, and bordered by a fringe-like 

 band of lighter streaked longitudinally. In others the inner half of 

 the membrane is almost immaculate and light-coloured. The pouch 

 when distended is directed forwards at an acute angle to the long 

 axis of the body. 



Jai>alura variegata, Gray ; Gthr. /. c. p. 133. 



Japalura microlepis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. 1870, p. 76 (female). 



Japalura jylanidorsala, Jerdon, ibid. p. 7(1 (young). 



I have examined twenty-one specimens of this species, of all ages 

 and both sexes, from one locality ; and after dissection I find that 

 all the small-scaled individuals are females, and that those with a 

 double series of very slightly enlarged keeled scales on the back on 

 either side of the mesial line, separated from it by only one row of 

 mesial scales, but on the neck by four or five, are young. At first I 

 was near following Dr. Jerdon in regarding the small-scaled specimens 

 with the dorsal double row of enlarged scales as specifically distinct 

 from the large-scaled individuals ; but further materials have led me 



* Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. G33, and xxiii. p. 210. 



