1872.] F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. 121 



ness. Young specimens generally have a distinct greenish metallic tinge 

 on the whole body. 



Largest specimen measures 5.25 inches, of which the body is 2" , or a 

 little less ; some specimens have a stouter tail than others. 



Sab. Sikkim, at elevations of from 3,000 to 10,000 feet; generally 

 found between large stones in places exposed to the sun. 



Jerdon* says that Giinther' s JEumeces Simalayamisf is identical with 

 BiJcMmensis, which latter Giinther quoted as doubtfully belonging to Hinulia 

 indica.% Dr. Anderson (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 158) also says, that the Sik- 

 kim form " agrees in its transparent eyelid and all its other details with Giin- 

 ther's Eum. him al ay anus" he has, however, I believe,never seen an example of 

 the true JSLocoa Simalayana of Giinther. I have specimens of the latter from 

 Simla and the hills to the West, and I find that although they closely resemble 

 Sikkimensis, they are nearly as well distinguishable, as are Sin. indica and 

 maculata. Among five specimens of Simalayana only one has 26 longitudi- 

 nal rows of scales, the four other specimens have each 28 longitudinal rows ; 

 there are 48 to 50 transverse rows between fore and hind-limb, but only 42 to 

 44 scales in a row along the edge of the belly. On the back there are, as in 

 Sikkimensis, only 4 longitudinal rows, but at the sides and below the scales 

 of Simalayana are decidedly smaller. Other differences are : the limbs, 

 though not longer than in SUckimensis, are in Simalayana somewhat more 

 slender, the transparent disk on the eyelid is larger, the ear-opening is also 

 larger and with much more distinct lobules in front, the posterior frontals 

 are more developed, almost meeting the anterior frontal and the vertical in 

 a point, as stated by Dr. Giinther, while in Sikkimensis the two posterior 

 frontals always remain well separated. 



The colour of Simalayana is, as described by Giinther, above, greenish 

 olive (not bronze brown, or only tinged with olive, as in SUckimensis'), with a 

 few interrupted series of dark and whitish dots ; a blackish band commences at 

 the nasal and continues through the eye along the upper side of the body to 

 near the tip of the tail, it is either uniform or with a few white spots, and on 

 the tail it becomes generally less distinct. At the edge of the back the black 

 band is margined by a white line, (most distinct on the neck), and below by a 

 much broader white band, commencing at the lower edge of the orbit and ter- 

 minating at the hind limb. Below this white band the sides are mottled or 

 speckled with dark. The lower surface is uniform greenish white ; tail reddish 

 below (seasonal). All this strongly contrasts with specimens of Sikkimensis 

 of which I collected a very large number of specimens in Sikkim. I do not 

 wish to say that the two forms may not be shown to represent mere varieties of 



* Proc. Asiat. Soc. for February 1870, p. 73. 



f Eeptiles of India, p. 8(3. % Ibidem, p. S9. 



