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male and female specimens of variegata, the bodies of which vary between 

 one and a half, and two inches in length, there is a similar, simple, continu- 

 ous nuchal and dorsal crest present, as in the adults, with the usual respective 

 difference in size noted as regards the two sexes. 



These observations, on undoubted J. variegata " of all ages and both 

 sexes," do not exactly agree with those recorded by Dr. Anderson. They 

 do not exclude the possibility that J. microlepis might have been suggested for 

 a specimen of variegata with accidentally somewhat smaller scales, but as I 

 do not remember having seen Jerdon's type specimen, and at the same 

 thne I know, how very often Dr. Jerdon must have seen J. variegata in all its 

 stages, I would defer the identification for the present. As regards planidorsata 

 I have no hesitation in saying that Dr. Anderson is mistaken. I well re- 

 member Jerdon's two type specimens ; they did not appear to be very young 

 and were in beautiful preservation. Among the great number of specimens 

 of variegata in the Indian Museum, which Dr. Anderson had been good 

 enough to shew me, I could find none which would correspond with Jerdon's 

 briefly indicated distinctive characters of planidorsata. 



SlTANA PotfTICEEIANA,* Cuv. 

 Bitana minor, Giinther, I. R., p, 135. 



The smaller form described by Giinther as Sit. minor, and noticed by 

 Blanford hi Journ. A. S. B., xxxix, Pt. II, p. 365, also occurs in Western 

 Bengal at the Parisnath hill, and on the Sone river in Bihar, extending 

 northwards through the North- West Provinces as far as Rurki, near the 

 base of the Himalayas, westwards into the Panjab, Kattiawar and Katch, but 

 it is not known from any part of Bengal East of the Ganges. 



Colour : pale or darker brown above and at the sides, a dark band be- 

 tween the eyes ; snout and occiput irregularly spotted and variegated with paler 

 brown ; 5 or 6 quadrangular spots on the back, followed by a few smaller ones 

 on the tail ; a pale yellowish line along the centre of back is generally present, 

 and the edges of the back are also pale ; a yellowish band on each side from 

 below the eye through the ear to the groin, in full grown specimens only well 

 marked at the sides of the neck. All these pale or yellowish bands, as well 

 as some of the large scales at the side, and particularly the front side and the 

 hind base of the femora, and the transverse pale bands on the limbs, have a 

 very marked fleshy or rosy tinge, most distinct in full grown males. The 

 pouch is tinged with blue and red in the males only during the breeding 

 season, at other times it is slightly blue, but a blue line always continues from 

 it along the chin to the lower rostral. The labials are often blackish. 

 Below, yellowish white. 



* Dr. Anderson informs me that lie believes this form to be specifically distinct 

 from true Ponticerioma, differing from the latter by the intermixed larger scales &c. 



