372 dr. j. anderson on Persian, [Mar. 5, 



The colour of the body of this species is pale yellowish, the limhs, 

 tail, head, and neck being brownish, with a tinge of olive, the head 

 being unspotted. 



CUORA AMBOINENSIS, Daud. 



I have received a male of this species from Samagooting in the 

 Naga Hills, Assam, measuring 7" 8" in length. 



Yaranidj;. 

 Hydrosaurus salvator, Linn. 

 This fine Lizard is not uncommon in Assam. 



Lacertid;e. 



Lacerta strigata, Eichw. 



Scales oblong, granular, placed obliquely but keeled longitudi- 

 nally. Ventral plates in six rows, the two central lines of scales 

 each about half the size of the one external to it. Small scales along 

 the external margin of the outer row, which has twenty-five scales 

 from the axilla to the groin. Preanal plate large, semicircular, its 

 hinder margin slightly convex ; surrounded by two rows of small 

 scales and a rudimentary third. Nineteen to twenty-two femoral 

 pores. Verticils of tail regular, of moderate length and breadth, 

 strongly keeled. Nostril in the lower hinder angle of the nasal, 

 with the suture of the rostral and first labial touching the middle of 

 its lower margin ; two small shields behind it of nearly equal size, 

 the lowest one triangular, with its apex directed downwards and 

 backwards, the shield above it pentagonal. Frontal of moderate 

 size, hexagonal- Postfrontals each about the same size as the frontal, 

 heptagonal, forming a moderately broad suture with each other, but 

 a very narrow one with the anterior loreal and parietal. Vertical 

 broader anteriorly than posteriorly, rounded in front, obscurely 

 pointed ; lateral margins concave ; posterior margins oblique, straight, 

 or slightly concave. Parietals larger than the postfrontals, tri- 

 angular, with the lateral margins convex. Postparietals smaller 

 than parietals, pentagonal, forming a very small suture with the 

 vertical, and one of nearly equal breadth with the parietals and pre- 

 occipitals. One or two small shields behind the postparietals, one 

 before the other. Preoccipitals as large as the postfrontals, penta- 

 gonal, forming a broad suture with each other, the postparietals and 

 exoccipitals and sutures of nearly equal width with the vertical and 

 occipital, which are partially wedged in between them. Occipital 

 rather smaller than the parietal, its anterior margins meeting at an 

 obtuse angle, lateral margins convergent, posterior end truncated. 

 A small truncated conical postoccipital. Exoccipitals larger than 

 any of the other head-plates, hexagonal, external posterior angle 

 rounded. Two temporals equalling the length of the exoccipitals, 

 and forming a suture with them externally, the foremost one being 

 longest and largest. An elongated supraaural placed obliquely 



