JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 

 No. II.— 1872. 



Notes on various new or little known Indian Lizards, — 

 by Dr. F. Stoliczka. 

 [Continued from p. 116.] 



Mm. scincid^. 



Genus. Euprepes, Wagler, (as rest, by Griinther). 



Euprepes [Tiliqua] maculariits, Blyth. 



PI, V, fig. 1, upper view of the anterior part of the body ; la, side view of the 

 head ; natural size. 



See Blanford in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870, xxxix, pt. II, p. 358, and Anderson 

 in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 157. 



This species is readily distinguished from UJ. carinatus by proportionately 

 shorter and stouter limbs, and by a somewhat shorter head. As a rule the 

 scales are in full grown specimens seven-carinate, the middle carina being 

 separated from the adjoining by a somewhat deeper and wider sulcus, than 

 exists between the other ridges. In Sub-Himalayan specimens this is 

 particularly well marked. 



Blanford reported the occurrence of the species in various parts of 

 Central India. The Indian Museum received specimens from Cachar and 

 Asam, reported upon by Dr. Anderson. I obtained some on the Parisnath hill, 

 exactly identical in the small size and uniform coloration with those noted 

 by Blanford. There are only a few whitish spots at the side of the neck and 

 the dusky colour of the sides of the belly gradually passes below into the 

 white one. Specimens sent by Dr. Day from the Sone river in Birbhum 

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