14. 



JAPALUKA. 



309 



Total length 316 millim. 



Head 29 



Width of head 18 



Body 82 



Fore limb 53 



Hind limb 90 



Tail 205 



Himalayas. 



Sir J. Hooker [P.l. (Types.) 



(Types of 



Sir J. Hooker [P.; 



! Biancia niger.) 



Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [0.]. 



T. 0. Jerdon,Esq. [P.] (Type 



of J. microlepis.) 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Japalura swinhonis. 



Japalura swinhonis, Giinth. Sept. Bnt. Ind. p. 133, pi. xiv. flg. B. 



Snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit; can thus 

 rostralis sharp ; upper head-scales very small, irregular, keeled ; a 

 smaU tubercular scale behind the supraoiliary edge, and others 

 scattered on the hind part of the head ; eight or nine upper and as 

 many lower labials. Male with a very small gular pouch. A small 

 nuchal crest. Body strongly compressed, covered above and on the 

 sides with small keeled scales intermixed with larger ones ; only the 

 upper dorsal scales have their points directed upwards ; dorsal crest, 

 a very slightly serrated ridge ; ventral scales only a little larger 

 than the gulars, strongly keeled. Limbs above with scales of 

 irregular size ; third and fourth fingers nearly equal ; fifth toe not 

 quite as long as third ; the adpressed hind limb reaches the anterior 

 border of the orbit, or between the latter and the tip of the snout ; 

 tibia as long as the skull. Tail compressed, slender, twice and 

 one third to twice and a half as long as head and body, covered 

 above with unequal scales, inferiorly with equal large ones which 

 are larger than the ventrals ; all the caudal scales keeled. OHve- 

 brown above, the back with dark chevron-shaped cross bands ; a 

 light longitudinal band on each side of the back ; head generally 

 dotted with blackish ; sides reticulate with brown ; throat greyish, 

 with large white spots ; tail with dark annuli. 



Total length 284 miUim. 



Head 24 „ 



Width of head 16 „ 



Body 62 „ 



Fore limb 43 „ 



Hind limb 72 „ 



Tail 188 „ 



Formosa. 



