11. TROPIDOPHORUS. 363 
Tympanum nearly as large as the eye-opening. 29 scales round 
the middle of the body ; laterals and median dorsal series smallest ; 
dorsals and laterals rhomboidal, strongly keeled, not mucronate ; 
ventrals smooth. A pair of large preanals. The hind limb reaches 
the wrist.. Subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail compressed, a little 
longer than head and body; upper caudal scales similar to the 
dorsals, not spinose. Brown above, with large transverse yellowish 
spots; a series of small yellowish dark-edged round spots along 
each side ; a yellowish spot on the forehead; lips dark brown, with 
yellowish vertical lines; lower surfaces yellowish, throat marbled 
with brown ; tail brown with yellowish spots. 
: millim. millim 
Total length ...... 116 Fore limb........ 15 
Head ............ 12 Hind limb........ 22 
Width ofhead .... 7 Tail) ieass eer 62 
Body teise.c hig g 42 
Southern China. - 
a. Ad. Hongkong ? Sir J. Bowring [P.]. 
7. Tropidophorus cochinchinensis. 
Tropidophorus cocincinensis, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 556, pl. lvii. fig. 1 ; 
Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 189, and Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 77. 
—— microlepis, Giinth. Ul. cc. pp. 188, 76, pl. x. fig. a, 
Upper head-shields striated; a single frontonasal, longer than 
broad; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal as long as 
frontoparietals and interparietal together ; four supraoculars, first 
longest ; six supraciliaries anterior to the fourth supraocular, which 
borders the eye; frontoparietals shorter than the interparietal ; 
fifth upper labial largest and entering the orbit; an azygos postmental. 
Tympanum nearly as large as the eye-opening. 30 scales round the 
middle of the body, laterals smallest ; dorsals and laterals rhomboidal. 
strongly keeled, ending in a sharp projecting point; ventrals 
smooth, gulars feebly keeled. Three (or two) large prwanals. The 
adpressed hind limb reaches the elbow. Subdigital lamellae smooth. 
Tail compressed, a little longer than head and body; all the caudal 
scales, except the median lower series, strongly keeled, spinose, the 
keels of the three upper series strongest, forming continuous serrated 
ridges. Brown above, with lighter dark-edged transverse spots ; 
small light spots on the sides; lips brown, with whitish spots ; 
lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 158 Fore limb ........ 20 
Head ..........5- 17 Hind limb........ 28 
Width of head .... 11 Tail (reproduced) .. 72 
Body ......--.-5- 69 
Cochinchina, Siam. 
a. Ad. Camboja. M. Mouhot (C.]. (Type of 7. mécrolepis.) 
