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paler on sides, and white below. Base of tail yellowish. No 

 dark lateral stripe or dots. Length four inches, of which the 

 tail is one-half. 



Inhabits Pegu. 



E. cyanelia, Stollczka. 



Closely allied to anguiha, but the median occipital conspicu- 

 ously smaller. Limbs longer and more slender. Fore limb 

 nearly or fully reaches the ear. The hind limb is less than 

 half from axil to loin. Colour olive brown, with an iridescent 

 blue tinge. Pale brownish' oUve on the side, a few white spots 

 on the side of the neck and about the shoulder. A narrow 

 white, slightly black margined band from behind the orbit to 

 about the middle of side where it fades, to re-appear on the hip. 

 Tail brown, speckled on the side. Limbs above lineated. Chin 

 and throat yellowish. Size and habitat the same as the last. 



EUMECES, Weigmann. 

 Scales of back enlarged, lower eyelid scaly. 



E. tseniolatus, Blyth. 



Eurylepis tceniolatus, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1854, p. 73&. 

 Plestiodon scutatus, Theobald. Cat. Rep. As. Soc. Mus. 

 Mabouia tceniolata, Blyth, And. P. As. Soc, B., Sept. 

 1871. 



Supranasals form a suture behind the rostral. Nostril between 

 two shields. A large pentagonal prseocular, one postocular 

 between the last labials with a small one above it; six or seven 

 superciliaries, the third being largest. A vertical oblong loreal, 

 followed by a smaller, and a hexagonal postnasal over the suture 

 of the first and second labials. A vertebral series of enlarged 

 scales, three times as broad as those on either si^e, and obscurely 

 marked by 10 or 11 fine grooves. Scales in 21 longitudinal 

 series, the two central rows on the belly appreciably enlarged. 

 Two large anals. Two rows of very small shields between the 

 upper labials and the scaly disk of the lower eyelid. Colour 



