86 Stoliczka, on Sind Beptiles. [Mat, 



both. The nasals are usually very much swollen. The largest specimen 

 measures 10 inches, the body being 3"2 inches ; length of head 0'7 inches ; 

 breadth of same near its base very nearly 0-5 inches ; fore-limb 1'2 inches ; 

 hind-limb very nearly 2 inches ; fourth hmd-toe 0*7 inches. 



8. Eeemias [Mesalii^a] WATSo:tfAis"A, n. sp. 



Body and tail moderately slender and rather depressed throughout ; 

 shields of head smooth, or very slighly rugose. Eostral small, just reaching 

 to the top of the head ; nostril between an upper and lower nasal, followed 

 by a third very small shield, all three are much swollen ; anterior frontal 

 single, hexagonal ; a pair of posterior frontals forming a short suture ; verti- 

 cal bell-shaped, obtusely angular in front and with concave sides ; supraci- 

 liaries two on each side, separated from the supraciliary edge by a row of 

 small granules, and from the postfrontals by a small triangular shield situat- 

 ed near the canthus rostralis. A pair of anterior occipitals, each irregularly 

 pentagonal, narrow anteriorly, and forming a suture ; median occipital small- 

 er than either of the anterior ones, ovately quadrangular, with the short 

 anterior angle wedged in between the two anterior occipitals, followed by an- 

 other little shield, separating the post-occipitals, each of which is irregularly 

 triangular. Two loreals, the anterior one elongate and very narrow, the 

 posterior larger and triangular, and may almost with equal propriety be 

 taken as an ante-ocular. There are nine or ten upper labials, the fifth and 

 sixth being largest and under the orbit ; 7 — 9 lower labials, the fifth or sixth 

 the largest, and followed by very much smaller shields ; five pairs of chin- 

 shields, the three first pairs forming a suture ; the fourth pair is the largest. 

 Ear spacious, its upper anterior edge provided with a long narrow shield. 



Scales above and on the sides of the body granular, equal, convex, 

 smooth, and arranged in transverse series, there being about 45 of them 

 in one row round the middle of the body. Scales on the upper side of the 

 extremities also small, but slightly keeled ; those on the tarsi and on the 

 anterior flanks of the feet enlarged and nearly smooth, while on the tail they 

 are all enlarged, very sharply keeled and arranged in rings. The throat is 

 covered with small, smooth scales ; the belly with eight rows of enlarged, 

 trapezoid shields, one row on either side being situated at the edge. Hinder 

 side of femora with very small granular scales, lower side of tibias with large 

 ones ; one very large preanal shield surrounded above and at the sides by a 

 row of smaller shields ; 12-15 femoral pores on each side of the thigh, nar- 

 rowly separated in the preanal region ; scales on the lower side of the basal 

 portion of the tail smooth, but further on keeled. 



The lower eyelid is covered with granules, except in the middle where 

 there are some distinctly enlarged flat shields. Fold in front of the shoulder 

 well developed, but less distinct on the lower side, and nearly obsolete in 

 the middle ; its lower edge has eight scales. 



