162 F. Stoliczka — Andamanese and Nicola/rese Reptiles. [No. 3, 



Scutellum smooth. Shoulders moderately developed, on the anterior 

 slope finely punctated and shortly hairy. Furrows of the elytra above 

 distinctly punctated, laterally broader and with transverse bacilli, the 

 seventh and eighth furrow are broadest. 



Tongue rather narrow, punctated, thinly tricarinate, laterally concave. 

 Lower lip convex, with sparse punctation, its branches densely punctated. 

 Waist, below, with diverging elongated, dull scars. Metasternum smooth, 

 its hinder corners coarsely punctated, and the narrow sloping sides along the 

 elytrse very finely punctated and hairy. 



Abdominal segments with elongated, finely punctated lateral scars, 

 broadest on the first few segments, linear on the penultimate and obsolete 

 on the last. Lower side of prothorax the middle and hind tibia? with short 

 and rather thinly distributed hairs. 



Hah. — Sikkim. I obtained a single specimen at about 1500 feet, 

 some two miles east of Pankabari. 



The species is intermediate between carter us and Andamanensis ; with 

 the latter it agrees in the shape and structure of the head, with the former in 

 the transverse costulation of the lateral furrows of the elytra, but in cancrus 

 this costulation is still stronger. 



Note oin" some Ais'damat^se and Nicobaeese Eeptiles, with the de- 



SCEIPTION OP THEEE NEW SPECIES OF LIZARDS, 1)1/ De. F. StOLICZKA. 



[Received and read 7th May, 1873.] 



I have given a list of the Reptiles and Amphibians, known from these 

 islands, in a former paper, — Journal A. S. B., Vol. xxxix, pt. II, 1870, pp. 

 136-138 etc. ; having, however, lately had an opportunity of visiting all the 

 Nicobar islands (excluding Little Nicobar and Pulo Milu), and the Andamans, 

 including the Cocos and Preparis, I am in a position to add a little infor- 

 mation about^ some of the species. Our visit* was chiefly from an ornitho- 

 logical point of view, and as it fell already in the hot season (March), the time 

 was very unfavorable for collecting reptiles, at least on the northern group 

 of islands, which at this season are much drier than the southern Nicobars. 



We found the following species generally distributed over nearly all the 

 islands which we visited : — Tropidonotus qiiincunctiatus, Lycodon aulicuSy 

 Deiidropliis pictus,-\ Cerberus rhynchops and Trimeresurus Cantoris. Spe- 



* In company witli Mr. A. O. Hume, C. B., Messrs. Ball and Wood-Mason. 



f In the July number of the Berlin Monatsbericht (for 1872, p. 583), just received, 

 I observe that Dr. Peters describes a Dendrophis terrificus, with 13 rows of scales ; it is 

 very closely allied to Dendrophis cavdoUneatus, (compare ante p. 123), but differs in 

 coloration. 



