7. MABUIA. 179 
and body. Bronzy olive above, sides dark brown; a light, black- 
edged streak on each side, from the prefrontal and along the supra- 
ciliaries to the anterior third of the back, where it gradually dis- 
appears; a light streak from below the eye to the shoulder ; lower 
surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 150 Fore limb ........ 16 
Head os eei cece ay on 12 Hind limb........ 22 
Width ofhead .... 8 Pa caste otra agree 95 
Body eecncecee ce 43 
Central India. 
a, Ad. Godavery valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
29. Mabuia novemcarinata. 
Soe novemcarinatus, Anders. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 1871, 
p. 12, 
“ Supranasals forming a suture behind the rostral. Eyelid scaly. 
Prefrontals and vertical (frontal) meet in a point. Seven upper 
labials, the fifth the longest. Ear obliquely oval, with two or three 
strong prominent denticulations; 32 longitudinal lines of scales 
round the body and 42 transverse lines between the axils. Scales 
with nine keels, the three central ones’ strongly marked. The fore 
limb reaches to the anterior angle of the eye; hind limb as long as 
two thirds of the distance between ‘the axils. Above olive-brown, 
with four or five narrow longitudinal black lines along the back. 
A deep brown band from the nostril through the eye and above the 
ear, along the side and on to the base of the tail, with a moderately [?] 
white band above far over the supercilium along the side of the 
back ; another through the upper labials and ear to the shoulder, 
where it changes into the pale greenish yellow of the side. A very 
faint broken blackish line from the angle of the mouth to the 
shoulder, and three or four from behind the fore limb along the 
side of the belly. Limbs with five longitudinal black lines with 
scattered white spots.” 
From snout to vent 98 millim., tail 110. 
Mandalay, Burma. 
30. Mabuia beddomii, 
Euprepes beddomii, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p.73; Giinth. 
roc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 225; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit, Ind. p. 52. 
—— (Tiliqua) septemlineatus, Blanford, Journ, As. Soc, Beng, xxxix. 
1870, p. 360, pl. xvi. figs. 7,8; Theod. 1. ce. p. 50. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril behind the 
vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; no 
postnasal ; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than the second, in 
contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact oo the 
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