654 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [July, 



Form like E. rnfescens. Triangular incision of the palate very small, 

 with a few minute pterygoid teeth on each side. Ears obliquely oval, 

 small, appearing more so being half covered by two of the temporal 

 scales ; no lobules on the anterior margin. Scales of the back with 

 minute, longitudinally waved lines, and from 3 to 8 indistinct keels. 

 The outer half of the toes and the nails sharply compressed. A series 

 of scuta beneath the tail. 



Very young. Head light green bronze, shields edged with black and 

 a black line, edged with silver, from the muzzle to the ear. Back, 

 sides, root of the tail and outside of the limbs shining black with 

 numerous transversal, waved, silvery lines. Feet and toes rose, or 

 flesh-coloured. Tail brilliant scarlet.* Throat, abdomen and inside 

 of the limbs silvery white. 



Adult, Ground colour greyish-brown bronze. Frontal and supra- 

 orbital shields black edged ; fronto-parietals, inter-parietals and parietals 

 black, each with a whitish elongated mark, united, forming a symmetrical 

 figure. From the nostril to the eye a black streak. Neck and body 

 with a number (12 to 14,) of distant, transversal, waved bands, com- 

 posed of black scales, each with a rectangular white spot in the middle. 

 Outside of limbs with 4 or 5 similar bands. In some a buff coloured 

 lateral band on the posterior part of the back, and the anterior half of 

 the side of the tail. Beneath iridescent light bluish-green; scales with 

 whitish edges. Iris black with a golden narrow circle. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula, Pinang. 

 Java. 



In habits this species resembles Euprepis rufescens, but appears to 

 be far less numerous. In a female were found eleven eggs, in shape, 

 size and colours resembling those of E. rufescens. The young, above 

 described, was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 



Ditto ditto tail, If 



Entire length : 3| inch. 



* The very young of Eumeces lessonii, Dum. and Bibr. (Scincus cyanurus, Lesson,) 

 is distinguished by a similar distribution of colours. 



