1899.] EEPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 645 



75. MaBUIA fiUGIFEEA (Stol.). 



Mahuia rwjifera, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 184. 



06 this hanclsomelj' marked and remarkably scaled species, which 

 has not previously been recorded from the Malay Peninsula, I 

 obtained one specimen near the entrance of the Batu Caves, 

 Selangor, in June 1898, and one in the jungle on Bukit Timah, 

 Singapore, in Sept. 1898. In the latter the sides and underneath 

 of the head and neck were a beautiful orange-red in life ; it 

 measured 182 mili, in total length (snt. to vnt. 56, tail 126). 



ITab. Nicobars, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sipora (Mentawei 

 Islands), Java, Borneo, 



76. Mabuia multipasciata (Kuhl). 



Eiqy^^epes rufescens, Cantor, p. 46. 



Mabuia multifasciata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 186 ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S. 1896, p. 874. 



Siamese. " Chiug-lane." 



Malay. " Menkarong " and " bengkai'ong." 



Localities. This is the common " Sun Lizard" or "Grass Lizard" 

 of the Straits Settlements and is also very numerous in parts of 

 Siam. I have met it in Kedah (i\-lor Star and .Tenan), in Penang, in 

 Province Wellesley (Butterworth), in Perak (Larut Hills, 3300 feet 

 elevation), in Singapore, in Bangkok, in Ayuthia, and in the Dong 

 Phya Fai (at Hinlap, 700 feet elevation). 



Habits. Pood consists of insects, especially crickets and cock- 

 roaches. 



Description. (Drawn up from thirteen specimens from five different 

 localities.) Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril be- 

 hind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial ; 

 a postnasal ; anterior loreal not deeper than the second, usually in 

 contact with the first labinl, in one specimen but slightly so, and 

 in one specimen not in contact with it ; supranasals not in contact 

 behind the I'ostral in eight specimens, in contact in two specimens 

 (in three tliis point was not noted); frontonasal broader than long, 

 frequently much broader; praefrontals in contact niesially ; frontal 

 slight]}!' shorter than the frontoparietals and interparietal together 

 (in one specimen it is as long) ; frontal in contact with the second 

 supraocular (in one specimen in contact with the first and second 

 supraoculars) ; four supraoculars, second largest ; normally six 

 SLipraciliaries, first largest, but not unfrequently the fourth and 

 fifth supraciliaries are fused iiito one shield, which is then the 

 largest, or else the second and third may be welded together ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, in two specimens shorter, but usually 

 larger, than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; 

 a pair of nuchals ; four labials anterior to the subocular (except in 

 a specimen from Ayuthia, which has on each side only three) ; 

 subocular large and not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening roundish 

 oval, about as largp as a lateral scale, with a few (three, four, or 

 five) small white lobules anterioi'ly (except in a specimen from 



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