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J. planidorsata, Jerdon. Proc. As. Soc, B., March, 1870. 



Back very flat, without nuchal or dorsal crest, but " a double 

 series of very slightly enlarged keeled scales, separated along the 

 back by one row of smaller scales but on the neck by four or 

 five" rows, and also several rows of angularly bent larger scales, 

 the angle directed backwards. " It has a strong similarity in 

 the arrangement of the scales to /. Swinhonis from China." 



Length, body 2-00 ; tail 3-25 = 5-25 inches. 



Inhabits the Khasi hills. 



But three specimens of these two species were obtained by 

 Jerdon, and Dr. Anderson (Proc. Zool. Soc, Lon., February 

 1871) has ranged both as synonyms of variegata, an identifica- 

 tion not admitted by Stoliczka with regard to the former, and 

 wholly repudiated by him as regards the latter form. 



SiTANA, Cuvier. 



Limbs long with five toes in firont and only four behind. 

 Scales regularly arranged, keeled. Male with a large gular 

 appendage. Eyelid scaly. 



S. Pondiceriana, Cuv. 



S. inivor, Giinther, I. B,., p. 135. 



S. Dekhanerisis, Jerd., P. A. S. B., March, 1870, p. 76. 



Si^e variable with locality from 550 inches in Northern India 

 (Stol. J. A. S., 1872, p. 109), to 7-50, in Ceylon (W. Blanford, 

 J. A. S., 1870, p. 367), or perhaps a little more, the tail being 

 more than twice the length of the body. Limbs of variable 

 length, the fore limb sometime not reaching the vent, in other 

 cases stretching beyond it. Colour, fawn-colored with rhom- 

 boidal dark spots on the back and a pale yellowish streak from 

 below the eye through the ear to the loins, and a pale yellowish 

 vertebral Une a}^o, a blue line from the mental down the pouch, 

 which during courtship, is brightly parti-colored blue black and 

 red. The labials often blackish. 



Inhabits Western Bengal, Northern, Central, and Southern 

 India, Ceylon, the Panjab. 



