1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 201 



in his young specimen, measuring 1 9 lines. The first peculiarity is 

 that the hack is covered over with very minute (microscopic) tu- 

 bercles, that tend to arrange themselves in a linear manuer. A 

 series of these tubercles constitute the outline of the triangular brown 

 spot on the crown, and also of the Y-shaped mark on the nape, and 

 of other anastomosing lines on the back behind it. There is usually 

 a line of them running along the side of the back. All of these lines 

 have a beaded appearance, and are very fine, and not discernible in 

 some specimens, nor in adults. The triangular black spot extending 

 between the eyes has a very fine white margin, and sometimes encloses 

 a light-coloured spot in its centre. In the light-coloured variety 

 there are a number of dark-coloured spots with pale margins, ar- 

 ranged in a circle round a central one, with smaller spots about 

 them. The Y-shaped mark has also an obscure white margin. 

 The sides are generally black-spotted. In the dark variety, the chin, 

 throat, and thorax are black, marbled with whitish ; more so on the 

 belly, the posterior third of which is immaculate yellow. The upper 

 lip with four black bars on each side. A black band from the eye 

 below the canthus rostralis to the snout ; a black band over the eye 

 through the tympanum; a very delicate yellowish line along the 

 canthus rostralis, the margin of the eyelid, and along the supra- 

 tympanal fold to the shoulder. A black baud from the vent along 

 the back of the thighs, with a white margin above and a white spot 

 near its termination on the lower third of the thigh. Limbs barred 

 with brown. Palms and soles black, with a bright yellow external 

 margin. In the pale-coloured variety all these markings are the 

 same, only less intensely marked. 



I have a specimen of Dr. Jerdon's X. gigas beside me, but I find 

 that it in no way differs from the Darjeeling large specimens, which 

 are the adults of this species. 



Hab. Sikkim Himalaya, 3500 feet. 



I removed some land-shells from the stomach of this species large 

 enough to form a good meal. 



Cacopus globulosus, Gthr. /. c. p. 416. 



I procured a specimen of this species in the Botanical Gardens, 

 Calcutta, some years ago, but have never succeeded in obtaining an- 

 other. It is an adult female, measuring 2" 6'", and the hind limb 

 2" 8'". This specimen, when brought to me, was distended in the 

 same way as Gunther's young specimen, but I was unable to learn 

 any thing of its habits. The ovaria are very small (June). 



Uniform brown above, yellow below. 



Besides the fold between the eyes, and descending to the angle of 

 the mouth, there is a short obscure fold from below the posterior angle 

 of the eye to the shoulder. This fold is very obscure on one side, 

 but well marked on the other, and it may be a variable character. 

 There are a number of minute black tubercles on the sides of the 

 thighs external to the vent. 



The vomerine prominences appear to be more mucous folds than 

 papillse. 



