100 F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. [No. 1, 



segments, rather abruptly tapering, occasionally very bulging near the base, 

 uniform scaly above and at the sides without any enlarged spiny tubercles ; 

 subcaudals moderately enlarged, beginning to be so a short distance from the 

 anus ; about 11 transverse lamellae on the first, and 14-15 on the fourth toes, 

 the two or three basal lamellae arid the terminal one being in each ease simple ; 

 thumb well developed. 



This species is very closely allied to H. Ooctcei, and I might have 

 considered it as a gigantic variety of the same, had it not the peculiarity of 

 the first labial being excluded from the edge of the nostril, which is a 

 character constant in all the specimens, none of them also have any 

 enlarged spiny scales at the side of the tail ; but the most important 

 distinction lies in the presence of a large number of femoral pores, which 

 are also somewhat less widely separated in the preanal region, than they 

 are in 3. Coctcei. 



The general colour during life is, according to Mr. Blanford, olive 

 grey t© blackish olive, with irregular dark, pale edged marks in imperfect 

 circles, inclined to form 1 or 5 transverse undulating bands on the body. 

 In spirit these irregular markings are slightly traceable, and the whole body is 

 besides rather finely mottled with brownish olive. Below uniform white. 



Sab. I have examined 9 specimens which were kindly lent to me for 

 description by Mr. W. T. Blanford, who obtained the same in a solitary 

 locality on the Grodavari river near Badrachalam, on trees. The body of 

 the smallest measures 4i inch., and of the largest a little above 5 inches. 

 All have their tails partially reproduced, and the longest is only about 

 4| inches, in its original state it must have been at least 6 or 7 inches. In 

 one of the largest specimens, the length of the head is If inches, and the 

 width at the occiput 1\ inches. 



12. H. [Doettjea] Bebdmoeei, (Blyth). PL II, fig. 3. 



Leiurus Berdmorei, Blyth, Journ. A. S. B., 1853, xxii, p. 646. 

 Dorywra Berdmorei, apud Theobald, Journ. Linn. S., Zool. x, p. 29. 

 PI. ii, fig. 3, upper view of a male specimen, 3a and 36, side and lower views of 

 head, 3c sacral region with a part of the tail ; all figures in natural size. 



Body and tail covered with small, equal, granular scales, those on the 

 snout being somewhat coarser ; tail depressed, rounded at the sides, contracted 

 at the base, indistinctly segmented ; numerous small scales behind the 

 rostral and the nostril ; 10 to 12 upper, and 9-10 lower labials ; two pahs 

 of chin-shields, the first large, separated above by the rostral, below forming 

 a suture, those of second pair barely half the size, and each forming a suture 

 with the respective anterior chin-shields and the second labial ; there is usual- 

 ly a row of slightly enlarged scales along the lower labials, while those on 

 the throat are very minute, almost granular, and greatly contrasting with the 



