1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 203 



white tubercles on the throat, chin, and breast, with a prominent one 

 on either side of the latter. Length 1" 9'", hind limb 1" 1 1'". 



" Colour, a golden clay-brown above, with median blackish vertical 

 streak, diverging into two at the nape, which are continued to the 

 base of each hind leg ; and when the hind leg is closed it appears to be 

 continued on to the limb. Anteriorly to the eyes, a narrower branch 

 passes over the orbit, and is also continued to the base of the hind 

 limb ; and a median duller line appears on the croup, which abruptly 

 diverges towards the vent. Narrower intermediate lines are also 

 traceable ; and the principal streaks are set off by a pale golden edge. 

 Limbs beautifully banded ; the tarse dark posteriorly. Throat and 

 breast blackish ; the tuberculated belly and thighs tinged with yellow. 

 Sides black, continued in a straight line from the nostrils and eyes, 

 and strongly contrasting with a bright pale golden edge above." 



Such is Blyth's description of the coloration of his type, which I 

 have been unable to discover in this museum. In his description of 

 his second specimen, from which the foregoing account has been de- 

 rived, he mentions that " the markings in it are much less distinct, 

 while a great pale-edged black spot has become intensely developed, 

 adjoining the base of each thigh above. In the former specimen 

 three black spots may be seen in process of development, at the ends 

 of the two streaks which diverge from between the shoulders. In a 

 male the entire upper parts are pale, and have a rosy tinge, with the 

 same black spot conspicuously developed, while the remains of the 

 longitudinal striae are barely traceable. All are probably very beau- 

 tifully coloured when alive." 



In this specimen the general colour above is a pale violet earthy 

 grey. A narrow dark violet brown band runs from the tip of the 

 snout to the occiput, where it divides into two branches, which run 

 backwards and outwards, and terminate at the base of the thigh in a 

 large rich dark brown spot or drop, with a yellow margin. A smaller 

 similarly coloured spot, internal and posterior to it at the base of the 

 thigh above, and continued to the back of the thigh as a narrow 

 violet-brown band ; another longish linear spot external to it on the 

 sides ; faint indications (the specimen is much bleached) of some 

 reticulated bands on the side of the occiput and sacral region ; a 

 broad violet-brown band from the eye through the tympanum along 

 the side, with a pale yellow margin above ; a few black spots on the 

 oscilla ; a narrow yellowish arched line from above the anus along 

 the back of the thighs ; thigh with three narrow oblique violet-brown 

 bands, and the tibia barred or reticulated with the same colour ; 

 under surface dirty yellow, mottled with brownish on the tubercles 

 of the chin, throat, and thorax. 



This form has the edentulous palate and non-dilated toes of 

 Diplopehna ; in its general form, however, and in the strong fringed 

 ridge across the palate it approaches Callula. 

 Hab. Pegu. 



BlJFO PANTHERINTJS, Boie. 



Crown of the head concave, without bony enlargement ; no gland 



