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or with a few scattered dark spots. Sides dark banded, indis- 

 tinctly margined above with white, and passing below into duU 

 brown marbled with paler. Sides of tail greyish brown, with 

 an upper dark edge and darker marbled, with a few pale spots 

 and indistinct stripes. Below greenish white. Limbs and tail 

 during life a pale fleshy brown. Grows to ten inches, of which 

 the tail is two-thirds. Scales round body thirty-eight rows, 

 between axil and groin forty-six. 



Inhabits Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and Birmah. 



H. maculata, Blyth, 



lAssoTMta maculata, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 18.53, p. 653. 



The single prsefrontal touches both rostral and vertical. Five 

 rather tumid superciliaries. Vertical much narrowed behind, 

 almost ending in a point, followed by two pairs of occipitals, the 

 hinder being separated by an elongated shield. Colour above 

 brownish olive or pale bronze, with two series of black dots. 

 A dark band along the sides, from the rostral, evanescent on the 

 tail, and margined above and below with a pale streak continued, 

 with scalloped or undulated margins to the tip of the tail. The 

 sides in adults grey marbled. Below whitish. Scales round 

 body in thirty-six, between axil and groin in ninety-six rows. 



Length, body 275 ; tail 4-00 = 6-76 inches. 



Inhabits Kungpur (Blyth), Pegu (Theobald), Martaban 

 (Stoliczka), and the Andamans (Tytler). 



This is very close to IinMca a stouter and larger form, but in 

 this species, the scales between the fore and hind legs are in 96 

 rows, whilst in IruMca they are according to Giinther only in 46. 



H. Dussumicrii, D. et B. 

 The single prsefrontal touches both rostral and vertical, but 

 only just separates the posterior frontals. Superciharies five, 

 much swoUen, followed by two small shields. Jar a long vertical 

 slit, without lobules in front. Colour fulvous, olive-tinged in 

 front, reddish posteriorly, with two sub-marginal black bands, 

 partially broken up and becoming obsolete on tail. A metallic 

 greenish white line from superciliaries along the sides of the 



