142 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (May, 1905. : 
from different localities Six specimens from Penang and two 
from Upper Burma have tricarinate dorsal scales :— 
Total No. wien 3 Keels. |With 5 Keels. Be bi 
Assam ... es 13 12 1 92°3 
Lower Burma iis 26 24 = 923 
Andamans ne 14 3 Bi 21°4 
Nicobars : 5 5 0 100 
Borneo o. 30 30 0 100 
greater tendency among Andaman specimens for these scales to 
be quinquecarinate, as I have already suggested. ! 
Masoia TytLert, Bler. 
M. tytleri, Blgr., Faun. Ind., Rept., p. 191. 
Of this Andaman Skink the Museum possesses seven adults 
nd a young one. On the adults was obtained in the 
Botanical Gardens near Calcutta by the late Dr. Anderson ; but 
anterior loreal not, or but slightly, deeper than posterior, @ 
contact with second, sometimes also with first, labial ; frontsnasal 
\ J.A.8.B, (2), 1904; Suppl., p. 19. 
