1872.] F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. 123 



scattered dark spots ; limbs above almost uniform brown ; sides towards 

 tbe back witb a dark brown or blackish band, separated from the back by an 

 indistinct, partially interrupted, narrow, white band ; on the lower half of 

 the sides the colour gradually passes into dull brown, more or less spotted or 

 marbled with paler, which markings are generally also traceable in the 

 dark band ; sides of tail greyish brown with an upper dark edge, and marked 

 with darker and paler small spots, or indistinct stripes. Below, uniform green- 

 ish iridescent white ; limbs and tail of a pale fleshy brown colour during life. 



This is a much larger species than any of the two following, but it is by 

 no means common in Sikkhn. I found it from the base of the valleys up 

 to about 6,000 feet, and also received it from the Bhutan hills. It very 

 likely extends eastwards into Asam. 



The young specimen referred to by Dr. Anderson (1. cit.) under the 

 head of JEu. indicus belongs to the next species ; and judging from the 

 description of the coloration in Giinther's I. It. (1. cit.), it appears probable, 

 that specimens of the next species were also referred to this one as young- 

 There can, however, be no mistake about the distinctness of the two. JEL. in- 

 dica, as compared with S. maculata, is a much stouter and larger form, with 

 comparatively larger scales, arranged in a smaller number of transverse rows 

 between fore and hind limb ; the former has 10 rows of scales on the back 

 between the dark bands, the latter only 8 ; in indica the rostral, anterior 

 frontal, and the supraorbitals are slightly convex, the interspace between the 

 latter moderately wide, the preanal shields comparatively small ; the palm 

 and sole entirely covered with spinous tubercles, with some larger ones on the 

 posterior edge of the sole. In H. maculata on the contrary the rostral reach- 

 es far backwards, is flat or almost concave above, the anterior frontal is also 

 flat, the supraorbitals tumid with a very narrow space between them, and 

 the palm and sole are only partially tubercular. There is also a difference in 

 coloration ; the lateral band at the side in indica is never very distinct, and 

 is not margined below by a white line, which is always well marked in ma- 

 culata. 



In six specimens examined the length of the body varies between 3 and 

 3.75 inches, the tail being, when in its natural growth, about twice that length, 

 but often it is reproduced and then about equal in length to the body. 



Hestulia maculata, Blyth. 



PL iv, fig. 2, 2a, side and upper views of the head, natural size, 26, sole of hind 

 limb, twice the natural size. 



Comp. Stoliczka. in Journ. Asiat. So. B., xxxix. 1870, p. 174. 



The 5th and part of the 6th labial are below the orbit, both are nearly 

 equal in size ; the median pair of the enlarged preanals is sometimes (though 



