( 42 ; 



to twenty-seven transverse rows. Colour of head above dusky, 

 of centre of back brown, bordered with black against a 

 white line inuming from behind the eyebrows to tail. Sides 

 brown, finely mottled with black, and bounded below with a 

 second less distinct white line from the upper labials, through 

 the tympanum, above the shoulder, to the thigh. Below, this 

 between thigh and shoulder, is a black-mottled apple-green band. 



Lower parts white. Grows to five and a half inches, whereof 

 the tail is seven-tenths. 



Inhabits South-East Ber£r, Ch^nda, and Udipur, vide W. T. 

 Blanford, J. A. S., B., 1870, p. 34S. Coromandel Coast, Leschen- 

 nault. 



C. brunnea. Gray. 



Nostrils at the extremity of the muzzle ridge between two 

 nasal shields, followed by a smaller one. 



Inhabits the Kavery valley in the Koimbator and Salem 

 districts. 



C. Jerdoni, Bed. Mad. Monthly J. of Med. Scien., 1874, p. 34. 



Nostrils between three shields, one before, two behind. The 

 prsenasal large, artietilating with the rostral or postnasal and 

 prsefrontal. A postnasal articulating with the first labial and 

 the anterior loreal, and a second postnasal on the muzzle ridge 

 articulating with the anterior loreal and prsefrontal. Ventrals in 

 twenty to twenty-four transverse rows. Colour much as in 

 C. LeschenauUvi. Grows to five inches of which the taU is seven- 

 tenths. 



Inhabits the Kavery valley, South-East BerSr, the Southern 

 portion of the Central Provinces, and Chutia N%pur. 



ACANTHODACTTLUS, Fitzinger. 

 Nostril between three shields, of which the lower forms the 

 first labial. Eyelijis present. A scaly fold across the throat. 

 Femoral pores. 



A. Cantoris, OUnther. 

 Supranasals contiguous, prgefrontal nearly square. Posterior 

 frontals longer than broad, obtusely keeled, Superciliaries three 



