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have no dark spots on the back, but numerous white spots at the side of the 

 belly. The stripes at the side of the tail are in Central Indian specimens, 

 and in those from W. Bengal, and also from northwards near Hardwar, very 

 thin and often rather indistinct. Young specimens have 5, old ones 7 keels on 

 each scale. Sikkim specimens from the Rungnu valley, (one of which attains the 

 large size of 6f inches, of which tail is 3f, and has 30 longitudinal and about 

 28 transverse rows of scales between the fore and hind-limb), generally have 

 two or four rows of brown spots along the back, the spots becoming some- 

 what irregular and more prolonged on the posterior body ; sides with 

 blackish and more or less numerous white spots, the black spots inclining to 

 form longitudinal series ; sides of the tail very distinctly streaked with brown 

 and white, but when the terminal half, or third, of the tail is renewed, it is 

 uniform. In Sikkim I only saw the species in the lower valleys, up to about 

 3,000 feet, but generally at lower elevations, and by no means common. 

 Asamese specimens do not differ in any particular from the Sikkim ones, and 

 similarly coloured varieties were also collected by Dr. Day at Rurki, only 

 the specimens are smaller, and the white spots at the side of the body fewer, 

 and somewhat indistinct. 



The species also occurs in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, where I 

 obtained three specimens during the last winter (1860 to 1871). Each of these 

 has on the back two distant, almost continuous rows of brownish black spots, 

 and the brown colour between these rows is darker than that between them 

 and the respective edges of the back. On the hind part of the body, the spots 

 become broken up and finally disappear. The sides are either distinctly 

 spotted, with white as in Darjiling specimens, or they are more uniform 

 dusky ; the tail is on the anterior half always longitudinally streaked with 

 brown, intermixed with white. The lower side is uniform whitish, with the 

 edge between each two scales slightly darker, forming the longitudinal " obscure 

 dark strise," to which Jerdon alluded in his note J. A. S. B. xxii, p. 479. 

 Some of the specimens obtained at Pankabari, on the northern edge of the 

 Sikim Terrai, agree in coloration with those from Calcutta, having the middle 

 back darker brown than the sides of it, while others again have as many as 

 eight longitudinal, more or less continuous, black bands along the back. 



Pegu specimens do not differ from those from Asam and Darjiling, 

 and I suspect that Theobald's Burmese species, identified by Mm with 

 Kuhl's E. multicarinatus from the Philippines, is the same as Blyth's 

 macularius, but the two are by no means identical, as suggested by Theo- 

 bald, (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. x, p. 26). In comparing specimens from 

 various localities, it struck me that the hill forms generally have stouter 

 legs and shorter toes than specimens found in low country. 



E. macularius appears, at least partially, to replace JE. carinatus in Cen- 

 tral India, but not apparently in South India ; it is, however, in all the locali- 



