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N. Annandale: A new species of Lizard [Voh. II, 1908.] 



orbit nearly to the nape ; a series of line lines radiating from the 



eye. 



Locality — -Hills near Harmatti, Assam. 



The type (apparently a female) was collected during the Dafla 

 Expedition of 1874-75, and is numbered 3976 in the Indian Museum 

 register of reptiles. Its dimensions are as follows : — 



lycngth of head and body 

 Width of head 

 Length of snout 

 Width of orbit 

 Length of tail 

 lycngth of fore limb . . 

 Length of hind limb . . 



90 mm 



14 

 10 

 8 

 230 

 52 

 76 



Boulenger's " key " to the genus in Faun. Brit. Ind., Reptiles, 

 p. 131, will have to be emended as follows to include the new 

 species : — 



A. No fold in front of the shoulder. 



[a) vSnout not more than once and a 

 half as long as the diameter 

 of the orbit 



B. A fold in front of the shoulder. 



{(i) vSnout nearly twice as long as the 

 diameter of the orbit 



{!)) vSnout only slightly longer than 

 the diameter of the orbit 



5. horsfieldii. 



S. ananiallayana. 

 S. aiisteniana. 



Mr. L. L. Fermor, of the Geological vSurvey of India, has recently 

 sent to the Museum a specimen of S. horsfieldii captured at the 

 height of 8,000 feet in the Nilgiris. 



