Vou. III] VAN DENBURGH-—REPTILES—CHINA, JAPAN, FORMOSA 233 
largest. Largest temporal touches parietal. Lower eyelid covered with 
scales, no single transparent disk. Ear-opening moderate, without lobules. 
A single azygous postmental. Thirty-eight scale rows around middle of 
body. Seventy scales in a row from parietal to a line joining backs of 
thighs. Two very large preanals, with small lateral pair. A patch of 
enlarged scales on lower part of back of thigh. Inferior midcaudal scales 
slightly enlarged. Twenty-one scales under fourth toe. Longest toe 
reaches axilla. 
The color above is dark olive brown on head, limbs, back, and tail. 
The back has scattered blackish brown dots near the midline, and along 
the pale yellowish brown dorsolateral line which extends from the tem- 
poral region more or less indefinitely to the base of the tail. A blackish- 
brown band, relieved with numerous scattered light dots on the sides, 
extends from the nostril to and below the eye, and from the eye to the base 
of the tail, being bordered below by a definite light lateral line. Below this 
line, starting as brown spots on the labials, is a dark band more or less 
indefinite on the body. The limbs are reticulated with dark brown. The 
lower surfaces are pinkish white. 
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V ariation.—Of twelve specimens at hand, eight have scales 
in thirty-eight rows, and four in forty rows. The scales 
between the parietal and back of thighs are sixty-seven in one 
Specimen, seventy in three, seventy-two in two, seventy-three 
in one, seventy-four in three, seventy-six in one, and seventy- 
eight in one. All have the patch of enlarged scales on the 
back of the thigh. All have a single azygous postmental ; 
frontal in contact with frontonasal, and two large preanals. 
Five have the frontal touching only two large supraoculars 
on both sides, five have this plate touching three supraoculars, 
and two have it in contact with two on one side and three on 
the other. All are darker than S. indicus and show more 
definite dark and light lateral bands than appear in any of the 
specimens of that species at hand. 
Two specimens from Botel Tobago, (Nos. 25110, 25111) 
purchased of Mr. Kukuchi, collector for the Taihoku Museum, 
seem to differ from the Formosan ones only in their general 
darker coloration and the presence of more numerous dark 
spots on the back. The scale rows are thirty-eight and forty; 
scales between parietal and back of thigh seventy-seven and 
eighty-two; supraoculars in contact with frontal 2-2 and 3-3; 
