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4, Tropidophorns berdmorii. 
Aspris berdmorei, Blyth, Jowrn. As, Soc. Beng. xxii, 1853, p. 651. 
Tropidophorus berdmorei, Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc, x. 1868, p. 24, 
and Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 48. 
Upper head-shields smooth; a single frontonasal, longer than 
broad ; prefrontals forming a short median suture, or their inner 
angles meeting ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 
together ; four supraoculars, first longest ; six or seven supraciliaries, 
anterior to the fourth supraocular, which borders the eye; fronto- 
parietals shorter than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture 
behind the interparietal ; fourth upper labial largest and entering 
the orbit; an azygos postmental. Tympanum nearly as large as 
the eye-opening. 38 to 40 scales round the middle of the body; 
laterals smallest, dorsals and laterals keeled, not mucronate, ventrals 
smooth. A pair of large preanals. The hind limb reaches the 
wrist. Subdigital lamelle smooth. Tail compressed, a little longer 
than head and body, scaled like the body. Brown,above, back and tail 
with yellowish, dark-edged irregular cross bars or alternating spots ; 
sides with a series of moro or less distinct whitish, black-edged 
round spots; lips dark brown, with whitish spots or vertical lines ; 
belly yellowish, lower surface of tail, and often also the throat, 
variegated with dark brown. 
millim. millim, 
Total length .....- , 175 Fore limb ........ 20 
Heads ici es-.0% 19 Hind limb........ 29 
Width of head .... 12 DAA. seeks arte vam sei 88 
Body sti neve 68 
Pegu, Tenasserim. 
a-d, Ad. & her. Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 
e. Ad. Tenasserim. Col. Beddome (C4. 
5. Tropidophorus yunnanensis. 
Tropidophorus berdmorei (non Blyth), Anders. Zool, Res. Yunnan, 
p. 796, pl. Ixxvi. fig. 3. 
Differs from the preceding in having all the scales perfectly 
smooth and in 34 longitudinal rows. 
Hotha valley, Yunnan. 
6. Tropidophorus sinicus. 
Tropidophorus sinicus, Boettger, Zool. Anz. 1886, p. 519. 
Upper head-shields striated; frontonasal divided, longer than 
broad ; a small azygos shield separating the prefrontals (probably 
not constant); frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 
together ; four supraoculars, first and fourth longest; seven supra- 
ciliaries ; frontoparietals slightly shorter than interparietal ; fourth 
upper labial largest and entering the orbit; postmental divided, | 
