652 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [July, 



The Variety described above, is numerous in the Malayan countries, 

 both on hills and in valleys. Of several the largest individual was of 

 the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 2\ 



Ditto ditto tail, 1-J 



Entire length, 4§ inches. 



Sub. Gen. Euprepis, Wagler. 

 Nostrils pierced through the posterior part of the nasal shield ; two 

 super-nasals ; palate with a more or less deep triangular incision ; 

 pterygoid teeth ; scales keeled. 



Euprepis rufescens, (Shaw.) 



Syn. — Lacerta maritima maxima, &c. Seba II, Tab. 105, Fig 3. 

 Lacerta rufescens, Shaw, III, P. 1, P. 285. 



Scincus rufescens, Merrem, apud { GrlyTn Griffith, A. K. 



Scincus multifasciatus, Kulil. 



Mabouya multifasciata, Fitzinger. 



Euprepis multifasciatus, Wagler. 



Tiliqua fufescens, Gray. 



Eumeces rufescens, Wiegmann. 



Tiliqua carinata, Gray. 



Tiliqua affinis, Gray, (Young.) 



Euprepes sebae, Dumeril et Bibron. 



Body strong ; limbs proportionate ; tail rounded, slightly com- 

 pressed, little exceeding half the entire length. Scales of the back and 

 sides : in the young with 5 to 7 keels ; in the adult the dorsal scales 

 with 3 to 5 keels, the rest smooth. The anterior margin of the ear with 

 3 or 4 minute lobules. Lower eyelid with a series of 4 or 5 larger, square 

 scales. Pterygoid teeth minute, few, hid in the palatal membrane, form- 

 ing a short line on each side of the triangular incision of the palate. 



Habit. — Sandwich-Islands, Philippines, Timor, Celebes, Borneo, Java, 

 Coromandel, Bengal. 



Var. D., Dumeril and Bibron. 

 Above. Ground colour shining bronce with 5 to 7 zigzag, or dotted 

 black lines, in some continued on the tail ; sides with many of the scales 

 black, with a square white spot in the middle, in some arranged so as 



