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in two. All have the lower eyelid scaly. No. 18610 has the 
left prefrontal merged with the frontal and frontonasal. 
Nos. 18607 and 18608 are from Tainan, Formosa; the 
others, from Koshun. All were taken in March, 1909. 
Sphenomorphus indicus (Gray) 
This species has been recorded as occupying an extensive 
territory extending from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, and 
Burma to eastern China and Formosa. Although it has been 
regarded as a homogeneous species, there can be no doubt that 
the examination of large series of specimens from various 
parts of this range will result in ane recognition of distinct 
races or subspecies. 
The collection under consideration includes series of nine 
specimens from Mohkanshan (altitude 1000 to 1500 feet) near 
Huchow, Che-kiang, China, and eighty-two specimens from 
Formosa. ‘These series are found to differ in scale counts to 
an extent which renders desirable their separation as sub- 
species. It is to be regretted that there are at hand no speci- 
mens from India for comparison, but the Chinese specimens 
agree so well with Boulenger’s description that I shall, for the 
present, regard them as identical with the types from the Hima- 
layas. The Formosan form, therefore, should receive a 
new name. 
These Chinese specimens all have either thirty-six or thirty- 
eight rows of scales about the middle of the body, the former 
reece being found in only four and the latter in five speci- 
mens or 55.5%. In the Formosan series thirty-eight scale 
rows are found only once (1.2%) while either thirty-six or 
thirty-eight rows occur in less than 37.5% of the specimens as 
against 100% of the Chinese. The scale rows are thirty-four 
in about 60% (49 specimens) of the Formosan examples, while 
this number does not occur in the Chinese series at hand, al- 
though Boulenger has reported this count in specimens from 
Fokien. 
The number of scales in a row from the parietal plates to 
a line joining the backs of the thighs varies from seventy-three 
to eighty-one in the Chinese, with an average of 76.6. In the 
Formosan lizards this count ranges from sixty-four to seventy- 
eight, with an average for the eighty-two specimens of only 71. 
