1869.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. 505 
dilated, with a double series of rounded lamellz below, the last pha- 
lanx being free. ‘ail about as long as the trunk, thick and flattened 
at the base, and tapering behind; it is covered with imbricate irre- 
gular scales, those on the upper surface being very large, much 
larger than the under ones. 
TERATOLEPIS FASCIATA. ; 
Homonota fasciata, Blyth, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 468. 
Back grey, with five brown longitudinal bands, which at regular 
intervals are interrupted by white spots, the spots of the same level 
forming a cross band; there are seven of those cross bands on the 
neck and trunk. Tail brown above, with whitish transverse spots. 
Lower parts whitish, tail with brown spots below. 
Length of the head 4 inch, of trunk 1 inch, of tail | inch, of fore 
leg 2 inch, of hind leg & inch. 
Unfortunately there is one example only in Dr. Leith’s collection, 
from Sindh; and this is in a very bad condition, having the head 
erushed, and having been dried before it was put in spirits. How- 
ever, the .imbricate scales and the white cross bands are characters 
by which the example could be determined as a Lizard referred by. 
Mr. Blyth* to Homonota, a South-American genus with narrow toes 
and without the double series of lamella. It could be predicted 
that Homonota was not the correct place for this Lizard ; but as the 
author did not mention anything about the structure of the toes, it 
was not possible to assign it to its proper place. It is one of those 
aberrant Geckoid forms with imbricate scales of which two other 
genera have been described within the last few years (Teratoscincus 
of Strauch, and Geckolepis of Grandidier); from both it is readily 
distinguished by important structural characters. 
CYNOPHIS MALABARICUS. 
A specimen was found by Dr. Leith, 51 inches long; it is much 
less beautifully coloured than younger examples, the white spots 
having disappeared, and only the black markings remaining. 
PsAMMOPHIS LEITHII. (Plate XXXIX.) 
Body slender; head rather narrow and pointed, distinct from 
neck ; eye of moderate size. Rostral shield as high as broad ; ante- 
rior frontals small, subtruncated in front; posterior frontals rather 
longer than broad. Vertical narrow, elongate, bell-shaped ; nasal 2; 
loreal large, elongate. One concave przocular, which reaches the 
vertical ; two postoculars. Eight upper labials, the fourth and fifth 
entering the orbit. Temporals 1+2+3. Scales lanceolate, smooth, 
in seventeen rows. Ventrals 168, not keeled; anal entire; subcau- 
dals 98. Ground-colour of the upper parts light reddish olive ; 
trunk with four brown longitudinal bands edged with black ; the two 
middle (dorsal) bands extend forwards to the end of the snout, run- 
* T have to apologize to Mr. Jerdon for having assigned the determination 
and description of “Homonota fasciata” to him instead of to Mr. Blyth, who 
intercalated it into a paper of Mr. Jerdon’s (Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 9%). 
