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rarely) united into one large shield. The hand has no tubercles on the 

 extreme inner edge, and the sole is only partially tubercular, being generally 

 smooth all along the bases of the 3rd and 4th toes ; there are 17-22 sharp 

 tubercles on the 4th free toe. 



I have examined specimens from the Andamans,* Moulmein, various 

 parts of Pegu, Asam, Sikkim and from the Parisnath hill in W. Bengal. The 

 Moulmein specimens are the largest, attaining 7 inches ; next come those 

 from Asam and the base of the Sikkim hills, just above the Terrai at 

 Pankabari ; specimens collected at greater elevations, as for instance those 

 about Darjiling (7-8000 feet) very rarely appear to attain 6 inches in length, 

 and on the Parisnath I did not get (in April) a single specimen above 5 

 inches. All from the latter locality are, above, distinctly bronze brown, while 

 those from the Himalayas are generally somewhat olivaceous or, when young, 

 with greenish metallic lustre ; they also often have the back much spotted 

 with blackish, and the sutures between the head shields are more or less 

 black, but in every point of structure the two forms are identical. 



In all the specimens, I saw, the fore foot when laid forward, reached 

 beyond the eye, but never to the front of the rostral. The fifth or last 

 supraciliary is the smallest, but rarely united with the fourth, which is then 

 followed by one or two small shields. The number of transverse rows of 

 scales on the side of the body between fore and hind limb varies from 80 to 95, 

 but the number of scales in one row at the edge of the belly is only about 60. 



HnsruLiA Dussumieeii, Dum. and Bib. 

 PI. iv, fig. 3, 3a, side and upper views of the Lead ; 3b, sole of left hind limb. 

 Lygosoma, Dussumierii, D. and B., Erpet. Gen., v, p. 725. 

 Eumeces Dussumieri, apud Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. So. for 1870. 



I am indebted for a specimen of this very rare speciesf to Major Beddome, 

 who obtained it in Malabar, where also the original specimens have been 

 procured by Mr. Dussumier. As the species is rare, a slightly verbal altera- 

 tion of Major Beddome's description may not be out of place. 



Head conical, depressed above ; body high, roundly subquadrangular ; 

 tail much longer than the body, gradually tapering to a point. The fore 

 leg, when laid forward reaches to the tip of the snout, and the hind leg ex- 



* One oftlietwo specimens, noted by Theobald in Cat. Eept. Asiat. Soc. Museum, 

 1868, p. 25 (letter b.) as coming from the Andamans is an Euprepes which, if not 

 identical with Steindachner's E. macrotis, from the Nicobars, belongs to a new species. 

 Scales in 30 longitudinal series, each sharply three-keeled ; supranasals not quite in 

 oontact, frontal forms a broad suture with vertical, occipitals as usually distributed ; 

 lower eyelid scaly, but the scales are rather larger in the middle ; greenish olive above ; 

 ear large with scarcely any projecting denticles in front ; sides blackish, below white. 



f In the specimen described by Major Beddome the first and second supra- 

 orbitals appear to have been united. 



