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frontal much more narrow posteriorly, separated from the inter-nasal by the fronto-nasals; 
two fronto-parietals, longer and more narrow than the fronto-nasals; a short inter-parie- 
tal, broad in front; two parietals considerably larger than either the fronto-nasals, or 
fronto-parietals; a small naso-frenal; two frenals, the posterior the larger, and two freno- 
orbitar, the posterior the smaller of the two; seven superior labials, the fifth long and 
quadrilateral; a transparent disk in the lower eyelid; meatus auditorius furnished with 
three small scales in front; body moderately robust, with thirty-three rows of cari- 
nated scales, the seven lateral rows more or less tricarinate, the intermediate rows strongly 
_bi-carinate: scales distinctly hexagonal; tail long and tapering, cyclo-tetragonal at base ; 
seales of the tail upon sides, tri-carinate; bi-carinate above. 
Colour. Light olive above, with three distinct lighter coloured vittes, commencing be- 
hind the occiput, and extending along the back, and upon the tail; two narrow vitte, one 
on each side, inferiorly ; under parts white, without spots; in another specimen the back 
and sides are also spotted with brown, and there is a double row of white spots on each 
side. 3 
Dimensions. Length of head, nine lines; greatest breadth, five; length of body to vent, 
two inches and a half: (Fr.) length of tail, four inches and eight lines; total length, seven 
inches and eleven lines; circumference, one inch and eleven lines. 
Habitat. Bengal. Two specimens presented by Dr. Burroughs. 
Gen. Remarks. This is a beautiful species of Huprepis; remarkable for the gracefulness 
of its form and colouring, and the mode of carination of its scales, which appears to be 
unique, none of the species described by Duméril and Bibron, presenting a similar ar- 
rangement. It resembles in colouring the Tiliqua trivittata of Mr. Gray. See Hard- 
wicke’s Hlustrations of Indian Zoology, and Zoological Journal, Lond. vol. 3, p. 227, but 
the tail is represented as shorter, and no mention is made of the inferior lateral stripe : 
nothing is said of the carination of the scales. 
EUPREPIS MICROCEPHALUS. NOB. 
Syn. Scincus ventralis, Peale and Green. 
Char. Lower eyclid scaly. Ash-eoloured above, with five, longitudinal dark-coloured 
lines along the back; twenty-nine rows of scales; 7—S8 carinated upon back and sides; 
body short. j 
Description. Nostrils in.a single plate, near its posterior border; two supero-nasals, not 
contiguous; an inter-nasal, broader than long, its lateral and inferior marein in contact 
with the first frenal; two fronto-nasals; a frontal very large, broader anteriorly ; a small 
interparietal; two. parietals broad, and rather short; immediately behind them two broad 
