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Lizard ae the appearance of Lygosoma maculatum, with which, 
judging from ae in the Indian Museum, it has sometimes 
been confused. Even a very superficial examination is of ¢ 
sufficient ~ ee —— thetwoforms. The dimeneaae #1 
f M. mul- 
M. tytleri Eee to be much scarcer than M. multifasciata in 
the Andamans 
Masvia monticota, (Theob.) 
Euprepes monticola, Gthr., apud Theobald (nec. Giinther) 
Rept. Brit. Ind., p. 52. 
The specimens described as Eupreyes monticola, tee by 
Theobald in his Reptiles of British India are quite dis tinet 
from that form, which is (as Boulenger states) a sts ym of 
Mabuia dissimilis (Hallow). The following description is based 
upon Theobald’s examples, three in number, and a young specimen 
from Arakan (Mus. colltr.). 
Lower eyelid scaly: a postnasal. Habit slender ; head very 
small; snout short, obtusely pointed ; tail slender, about 1+ times 
the length of head and body. Hind limb reaches the elbow 
of adpressed fore-limb. Supranasals meet behind rostral, fronto- 
sy broader than long; prefrontals in contact behind fronto- 
m 
eobald’s specimens have no history ; Somme they come 
from the Eastern Himalayas or the hills of Assa 
MABUIA ANAKULAR, nom. nov. 
hee longicaudatus, Anderson (nec Hallow), J.A.S.B. (2) 
XL, 1871, p. 13. S 
amb reaching elbow ‘of heed fore-li mb ; 
tip of snout and fore-limb contained 13 times in eamed oe 
