76 Stoliczha, on KacJih Beptiles. [Mat, 



limb, when laid forward, does not quite reach the anterior angle of the eye, 

 while the length of the hind-limb is very nearly one half the distance between 

 it and the fore-limb ; total length 7 inches, head and body together being just 

 half of it. The colour is pale fulvous brown, above minutely speckled with 

 dark and tinged with olive on the head ; a dark brown central band origina- 

 ting at top of head and continuing to the root of the tail is irregularly 

 speckled with yellowish white ; a second dark brown band originates behind 

 the nasal and extends along each side of the body to the groin, it is spotted 

 with white and gradually fades towards the belly ; lower side yellowish, with 

 a distinct yellow tinge on the throat, on the sides of the belly, about the hind 

 limbs and the root of the tail ; labials white with dark sutures ; limbs 

 above pale brown and spotted with white ; tail speckled with dark at 

 the sides. 



The other specimen measures 8i inch., the body being S^. Its colour is 

 quite similar to the first, but of darker hue on the back, and the tail is dark 

 spotted above, and at the sides. A third specimen, besides the two types 

 in the Museum, was collected by Dr. Jerdon in Northern Panjab. ' 



Sepsid^. 

 9. Sphenocephalus teidacttlus, Blyth. 



Journ. A. S. B., xxii, 654.— Giintlier, I. R., 98.— Jerdon, Proc. A. S. B., 1870, 74. 

 Not common. In Blyth' s description, it should be noted that the inner 

 toe on each limb is the shortest ; on the fore-limb the two outer ones are 

 subequal, but on the hind-limb the outer is conspicuously longer than the 

 median one. Scales in 20 longitudinal rows round the middle of the body, 

 and in about 82 transverse rows between fore and hind-limb. Head- 

 shields : rostral triangular, the supranasals form a suture behind it, and 

 there is a small postnasal present, in contact with second labial ; anterior 

 frontal septagonal ; posterior frontals separated from each other, irregularly 

 five-sided, much pointed behind ; vertical large, sub-quadrilateral, forming a 

 short straight suture with the anterior frontal and a waved one with the 

 somewhat smaller occipital, which is subtriangular, narrowed posteriorly and 

 rounded at the end ; there is no loreal present, but one elongated anteocular, 

 two or three small supra-oculars, one elongated narrow infra-ocular and two 

 squarish post-oculars, followed by three largish temporals, the lowest in con- 

 tact with the last labial ; eye very small, lower eyehd transparent ; six upper 

 labials, 1st very small, 5th largest, below the eye, sometimes split in two 

 shields ; six narrow lower labials gradually increasing in length ; inferior 

 rostral rounded behind, followed by two single chin-shields, of which the 

 second is more than twice the size of the first and obtusely pointed behind, 

 and there are four pairs of enlarged chin-shields besides. A pair of enlarged 

 preanal shields. Subcaudals moderately large. 



