1872.] HIMALAYAN, AND OTHER REPTILES. 379 



occur in the middle of the belly; those on the throat are very 

 minute. Ten upper, and eight lower labials. A pair of large chin- 

 shields behind the azygos lower labial, and forming a pretty broad 

 suture behind the latter, succeeded by another pair, the shields of 

 which are widely apart, their anterior extremities only touching the 

 first pair of labials. Two or three lines of largish scales below the 

 remaining lower labials. Tail with regular transverse rows on its 

 upper surface of rather pointed trihedral tubercles, seven in each 

 row. A small preanal region of enlarged scales in the female. 



Colour pale yellowish brown, with six faint brownish transverse 

 narrow dorsal bands, the tubercles in these areas being almost 

 black ; a darkish brown streak from the nostrils through the eye, 

 above the ear, with a whitish line above it. Lips whitish. 



From snout to vent 2-f". Tail imperfect. 



Hab. Persia. 



This species appears to be closely allied to E. trihedrw, from 

 which it may be distinguished, however, by its smaller ventral scales 

 and tubercles, and by its peculiar coloration. 



Pentadactylus khasiensis, Jerdon; Proc. As. Soc. Bengal 

 1870, p. 75. g ' 



Gymnodactylus khasiensis, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 162. 



I have received seventeen specimens of this species from Cherra 

 Punji in excellent condition. The former examples, which made me 

 first acquainted with the species, had become hardened by too 

 strong spirit, and had the close hood so contracted that they had 

 the facies of a Gymnodactylus. The recent specimens, however, 

 clearly show that Dr. Jerdon was quite correct in referring them to 

 Pentadactylus. The largest specimen measures from the snout to 

 the vent 3" 2'", vent to tip of tail 3" 8'". It appears to be a com- 

 mon species at Cherra Punji. 



Eublepharis macularius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beno- vol 

 xxiii. pp. 737, 738. ° 



Eublepharis macularius, Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus 

 1868, p. 32 ; Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. 1870, p. 75; H. T. Blanford,' 

 Journ. As. Soc. vol. xxxix. p. 338. 



Body covered with moderate-sized, conical, backwardly pointed 

 tubercles, separated from each other by numerous small flat rounded 

 granules, an arrangement that prevails all over the body as far for- 

 wards as on a line with the posterior angles of the eye ; before this, 

 the granules narrow in size ; and anterior to the front angle of the eye 

 the upper surface of the snout is covered with pointed tubercles, 

 smaller than those of the rest of the body and arranged in a tessellated' 

 manner. Nostril oval, in a single plate over the first labial, with a 

 large shield at its anterior superior margin between its plate and the 

 rostral. Ear large and crescentic, the straight anterior margin with 

 a few pointed tubercles. Tubercles on the loins and thighs larger 

 than on the rest of the body. Three shields of different sizes be- 



