1872.] Stoliczka — On new Beptilia, etc. 127 



edj and occupy the whole width of the neck, as is often the case in Moeoa. 

 There are' twenty-one to twenty-two longitudinal rows of scales round the 

 body, and forty-five or fifty transverse rows between the fore and hind limbs. 

 A pair of moderately enlarged pre-anals ; sub-caudals all single. 



Third and fourth finger as usually nearly equal, but the fourth toe 

 conspicuously longer than the third ; palm and sole entu-ely granular, and 

 the fingers and toes below with a row of compressed sharp tubercles, exactly 

 as in Bl. Gi^ayanus. The fore limb, when laid forward, reaches to, or slightly 

 bej'Ond, the angle of the mouth, and the length of the hind limb varies from 

 one-half to three seventh the distance between it and the fore limb. 



Colour, above, greenish olive, with or without slight traces of dark spots 

 on the back, but more distinct ones on the tail, edge of back irridesent whit- 

 ish ; sides pale greenish, with a dark band through the eye to the shoulder, 

 l)ecoming narrower farther one and lining the pale q^^q of the back ; remain- 

 der of sides with three or four dusky longitudinal stripes, nearly dissolved 

 into small transversely arranged dark spots at the side of the tail, and alter- 

 nating with white spots ; below albescent, somewhat dusky on the tail ; limbs 

 pale yellowish, on the upper side with longitudinal brown stripes, below 

 uniform. 



Size of a specimen with perfect tail 3*4 inches, head and body being 

 1.3 inch. I have examined two specimens from S. W. of Kalabagh on the 

 Indus. 



This species differs from Bl. Grayanus by its well developed opening 

 of the ear, slightly larger number of longitudinal, and transverse series of 

 scales, by a greater number of enlarged scales behind the occipitals, and 

 also by a more regular striation at the sides of the body. 



10. CAiiOTES YEESicoLOR. — Marri (Western Himalaya, between 7000 

 and 8000 feet). 



11. TEAPELrs MEGALONTX, vide ante, p. 88. 

 About Kalabagh on the Indus ; rare. 



In younger specimens from both provinces, Sind and the Panjab, there 

 is very little or hardly any difference in the size of the scales of the back, aU of 

 which are larger than those of the sides ; while in Giinther's figure the dorsal 

 scales appear to differ considerably in size among themselves, but, as all the 

 other characters agree, I do not think that they can represent two distinct 

 s species. 



i 12. Stellio TrBEEcrLATUs. (Comp. J. A. S. B., XLI, pt. II, p. 115). 



This species is extremely common all over the Western Himalayas. 

 . In younger specimens there is always a conspicuous black band between the 

 eye and the tympanum, and there is also some black round the eye. 



