116 F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. ■ [I\o. 1, 



more or less spotted and tinged with, reddish blue, extending partially on the 

 chest, and in adult males the whole of the under side, including the lower side 

 of the limbs, is bluish black, brightest and strongly tinged with purple on the 

 throat, the same tinge extending on the neck, the shoulders and sides of the 

 belly. An adult male is really a gorgeously coloured lizard. The usual 

 habitat is between large rocks on bare or open slopes of hills. 



Sab. — I have received numerous specimens of this species from Kamaon 

 (near Almorah) through Mr. A. W. Lawder ; from Kangra and Dalhousie 

 through Dr. Day, and from Mari through Mr. A. B. Wynne. About 

 Simla, in Kulu, all through Chamba, Kishtwar and in Kashmir, I have in 

 former years collected this species largely, it ranges up to 12,000 feet, 

 and if the Spiti form is the same species, I have observed it up to nearly 

 11,000 feet. 



There can be no doubt about Blyth's St. indicus being the same as iuber- 

 cirfatus, but whether the species really occurs in the plains near Mirzapur 

 and Wuzirabad, I have not as yet been able to ascertain. 



TlAKIS SUBCEISTATA, Blyth. 



In addition to my description of this Andaman and Nicobar lizard in 

 J. A. S. B., vol. xxxix, p. 180, I have to note the following.— The number of 

 scales round the body varies between 90 and a little above 100, 18-22 scales 

 being on the ventral side. The two groups of enlarged, or rather often only 

 more pointed, scales on the upper side of the occiput usually exist only in old 

 males. The subcaudals are slightly larger than the scales above and at the 

 sides of the tail, the latter being more distinctly imbricate. The fore-limb 

 when laid backward occasionally reaches as far as the anus, and the hind- 

 limb when laid forward exceeds the tip of snout by one-third the length of 

 the fourth toe. 



As regards coloration I may add, that there is occasionally a distinct 

 yellowish band present, extending from the occiput along each side of the 

 middle of the back, on the lower side margined blackish. The two yellow 

 bands form an outward angle opposite each femur and then unite into one, a 

 short distance beyond the base of the tail, and are accompanied on either 

 side by a series of large blackish spots. Extremities spotted or indistinctly 

 barred with brown and yellowish white. 



(To be continued.) 



