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EuPEEPES, Wagler. 

 Each, scale with several keels. Tail roimded without spines. 

 Nostril in a single small shield. 



a — lower eyelid scaly (Tiliqua, Qray). 



E. carinatus, Schn. 



E. rufeseens, Shaw. 



Sci/ncus, multifasciatus, Kuhl, 



Tiliqua rubriventris, Gray. 



T. carinata, Gray. 



T. affinis, Gray. 



Plestiodon Sihkvrnensis, Gray. 

 Scales three, sometimes five keeled. The prsefrontal is gene- 

 rally separated from the rostral and vertical by the supranasals 

 and postfrontals, but sometimes touches one of them. The 

 fifth labial is under the orbit, and is much longer than bigh. 

 Scales in 28 to 30 longitudinal, and between limbs 30, rows. 

 Colouration variable. The prevailing hue is a rich olive brown 

 or bronze, darker on the sides, and with a pale lateral stripe 

 from over the eye down each side of the back. This lateral 

 stripe is often white-spotted, or of a very pronounced yellow, and 

 seasonally the sides are deeply suffiised with red. The back 

 is often black-dotted, or with a blackish streaks along the series 

 of scales. Viviparous. Does not usually exceed eleven inches, 

 of which the body is rather more or less than three-eighths. 

 Gunther notes specimens of sixteen inches, of which the body 

 was six inches, whilst Stoliczka received one of twenty inches 

 from the Andamans, of which the tail was nearly twelve. The 

 largest specimens would seem to come from the east of the Bay 

 of Bengal and its islands. 



Inhabits Bengal, the North-Western Provinces, the Punjab, 

 Central and Southern India, Ceylon, Arakan^ Berar, and the 

 Malayan Peninsula. The Andamans, &c. 



E. Macularius, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1853, p. 652. 

 E. rufeseens, Shaw, young, apud Cantor, 

 Closely resembles E. carinatus, but the scales are five to seven 

 keeled, and the species is a much smaller one, and of less stout 



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