23. HEMIBACIXLTTB. 



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point of the mental. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. 

 Male ■with, a series of thirty to thirty-six femoral pores, not inter- 

 rupted on the preeanal region. Tail rounded, feebly depressed, 

 covered above with very small smooth scales and six longitudinal 

 series of keeled tubercles, interiorly with a median series of trans- 

 versely dilated plates. Greyish or pinkish brown above, uniform or 

 more or less distinctly marbled with darker ; head generally varie- 

 gated with brown ; a more or less defined brown, above light-edged 

 streak on the side of the head, passing through the eye, extending 

 sometimes along the side of the body ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 113 miUim. 



Head 16 



Width of head 11-5 



Body 39 



Fore Umb 18 



Hind limb 21 



TaU 58 



China, Indo-China, Malay peninsula, Southern India, islands of 

 the "Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, St. Helena. 



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F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 

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 M. Mouhot [0.]. 

 Dr. Cantor. 



Col. Tytler [P.]. 



Hr. H. Sandemann [C.J. 



Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



(Types of M. vittatus.') 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer [0.1. 

 A. Everett, Esq. [0.1. 

 H.M.S. ' OhaUenger.'^ 



Corea. 



Hainan, 



Taiwanfoo, S. Formosa. 



NUgherries. 



Salem. 



Caload Hills. 



AnamaUays. 



S. India. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Birma. 



Gamboja. 



Siam. 



Pinang. 



Andamans. 



Nias. 



Java. 



Batavia. 



Borneo. 



Luzon. 



Puerto Princesa. 



Zebu, Philippines. 



Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [OJ. 



Murray Island. Rev. S. McFarlane [0.]. 



Port Essington. (Type of S. vittatus.) 



Ke Daulau, Ki Islands. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 Eagle Island, Amirantes. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Mauritius. 

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J. 0. MeUiss, Esq. [P.]. 



