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No. 43/10 is anomalous in the costals, the rows being reduced 

 to 1 5 posteriorly owing to the occurrence of some enlarged scales 

 in the lowest rows on either side. At a point nearer to the vent 

 than two heads' lengths there are 16 rows, the absorbed rows 

 reappearing and disappearing again. No. 41/10 was a female with 

 some six eggs, the largest measuring -5 inch long by nearly -25 inch 

 across. Nos. 57/10 and 68/10 were also gravid females. Two of the 

 specimens struck fiercely when being captured and one (No. 68/10) 

 progressed in leaps by raising the anterior half of its body and 

 throwing it forward in its attempts to avoid capture. The secre- 

 tion of the anal glands was found to be white of the consistency of 

 white enamel paint. No. 64/10 and perhaps No. 43/10 have the 

 tip of the tail broken. In No. 68/10 the second subcaudal from 

 the vent is entire. In the region of the vent all the costals, even 

 the outermost rows, showed traces of keels. 



[I have disected out the skull of one of these specimens, and find the 

 dentition as follows : — 



Maxillary. — There is no gap in the series behind, and the teeth number 

 29 on each side. The last 3 are very slightly enlarged, and compressed. 

 Palatine. — 16, subequal. Pterygoid. — 19 on right side, 20 on left, 

 subequal. Mandibular. — 32 on the left side, 29 on the right, from which 

 a fragment is broken posteriorly that would probably support 3 teeths. — 

 F. Wall.] 



Psammody7iastes pulverulentus. — No. 44/10 found under a boulder 

 on 2nd May was a female containing eggs without any distinct 

 traces of development. Length 24 inches, tail 4-25 inches. The 

 costals were 17-17-15, ventrals 161 and subcaudals 58 pairs. An 

 anomaly is the divided anal shield. There are three postoculars. 

 Two loreals, the lower small, and the upper large subtriangular and 

 nearly reaching the eye. The general colour was dark brown, the 

 head vermiculated with white and grey and having a broad ivory 

 white band from the rostral passing below the eye but not on the 

 labial margin. This band disappears actually on the sides of the 

 neck and reappears as small widely separated white spots on the 

 ends of the ventrals and subcaudals. A row or three or four white 

 spots on the infralabials on both sides and some similar spots on 

 the sublinguals. Beneath it is whitish anteriorly, darker posteriorly 

 powdered with bluish grey and having two longitudinal bluish lines. 



