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16. ConrripuTions To ORTENTAL Herprtoitoay IIT.—Notes on the Ori- 
ental Lizards in the Indian Museum, with a List of the Species 
recorded from British India and Ceylon. Part 2.—By Newson 
ANNANDALE, B.A. (Oxon.), D.Sc. (Hdin.), Deputy Superinten- 
dent of the Indian Museum. 
The present is a continuation of my former paper with the 
same title, and deals with the remaining families of Oriental 
Lizards, viz., the Lacertide, Scincide and Dibamide. As before, 
I append a revised list of the species in the families dealt with 
which have been, or are here, recorded from British India and 
Ceylon, with their distribution within these limits. To the epithet 
“ Oriental’ I have given a liberal interpretation, including under 
the category of Oriental Lizards all those forms which occur on 
the mainland of Asia or in the western section of the Malay 
Archipelago, but excluding those only known from New Guinea or 
Australia. 
Dibamus is represented by two specimens, a male and a female, 
from the Nicobars. They do not call for any comment. As re- 
gards the Lacertide and Scincide, however, the series is a fine 
one, naturally richest in Indian and Burmese forms—we are 
rather poor in examples from Ceylon—but including a very consi- 
derable number of specimens from Palestine (collected and pre- 
sented by the late Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S.), from Persia ! (mostly 
obtained by Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S.) and from Hastern Turk- 
estan* (with a few exceptions, from the late Dr. F. Stoliczka). 
There are a few specimens also from Malaya, one or two from 
Singkip Island off Sumatra and several from Borneo; the last 
obtained from the Sarawak Museum, while those from Malaya 
and Singkip were either collected by one of the Museum collectors 
under the auspices of the late Professor J. Wood-Mason or were 
donated by the late Dr. Stoliczka. Otherwise the exotic (7.e., 
extra-Indian) part of the collection is of little importance; it 
consists of a considerable number of miscellaneous specimens from 
Australia and the two Americas and a few from Hurope and 
Africa. 
LACERTID A. 
TACHYDROMUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Gthr. 
T. haughtonianus, Jerd., P.A.S.B., 1870, p. 72; Siol., 
J.A.S.B., (2), 1872, p. 88. 
T. tachydromoides ( part.), Blyr., Cat. Liz, ii1., p. 5, and Fawn. 
Ind., Rept., p. 169. 
T. septentrionalis, id., P.Z.S. 1899, p. 161. 
1 See Blanford, astern Persia, Vol. ii., Reptiles. 
% Id., Scientifie Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, Reptiles. 
