1873.] F. Stoliczka — Ifalayan BeptlUa and Amphihia. 110 



Dkaco rniBiiTATus. 



Dumeril and Bibrou, vol. iv, p. 448. — Gray, Lizards, p. 234. 



A specimen from Penang exactly agrees with the one figured by Gray 

 and Hardwicke in Illust. of Indian Zoology as D. abhreviatus from Singa- 

 pore. The scales of the back are very small and almost quite smooth, with 

 a series of larger ones on either side at the base of each wing. Giinther 

 (Kept. Brit. India, p. 123) says that no orbital or rather post-orbital, spine 

 exists. This is a mistake, at least as far as male specimens are concerned. 

 In these there are two very distinct post-orbital spines ; they are well 

 shewn in Gray and Hardwicke's figure. Dumeril and Bibron's minute 

 description of the headshields from Javanese specimens also appears exactly 

 to correspond with the structure of Singapore and Penang specimens. 



General colour bronze brown ; head, not including the nape, a zigzag 

 undulating slightly variegated band across the neck, another across the 

 shoulders, a third between the hind limbs, and a fourth, though less distinct 

 one, across the middle of the body, pale bluish, a bluish black spot between 

 the eyes ; on the body are four irregular marks, each composed of a few 

 blackish lines, and each enclosing along the middle of the back a somewhat 

 elongated diamond-shaped figure. 



Limbs with cross dark stripes, and bluish edges to all the front and 

 hind sides. Wings above blackish with radiating bluish lines, below pale 

 with a few scattered black spots. Tail banded with bronze and pale bluish. 

 Chin variegated with dark ; gular pouch tinged with blue and red, dusky at 

 the base. Body below uniform yellowish white, with scattered bluish dusky 

 spots, mostly conspicuous along the sides, 



Calamaria Stahlknechti, n. sp. PI. XI. Fig. 2. 

 Body long, cylindrical, snout somewhat narrowly obtuse ; total length 

 13 "5 inches, of which the tail is 1*2 inch ; rostral reaching to the upper sur- 

 face of the head ; frontals anteriorly narrower than posteriorly, laterally 

 bent down, and in contact with first and second labials, the nasal being very 

 small ; occipital six-sided, with the anterior angle shorter and more obtuse 

 than the posterior one, it is smaller than one occipital ; each of the latter has 

 an obtuse angle in front and behind, and both form an inwardly directed angle 

 along the suture on either end ; one pree- and one post-ocular ; five upper 

 labials, the third and fourth touch the orbit, the fifth is largest, in contact 

 with the post-ocular and occipital ; it is followed by a moderately sized shield 

 which has quite the appearance of a sixth labial, and indeed the gape 

 partially extends below this quasi-sixth labial ; above this last extends a long 

 temporal. Mental shield small ; five lower labials ; the first pair is the smallest, 

 separated from each other, the fifth the largest. The first pair of chin-shields 

 is largest, each being in contact with thi'ce labials and having a very 



