1853.] Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. 479 



gronnd, row of black spots on centre of back, and some other 

 smaller ones on each side : three keeled scales. 



Length of one 6f inches, of which the tail is 3 T 6 Q-ths. 



This pretty Scink is tolerably common in wooded places, lurking 

 about chiefly among fallen leaves. It is more abundant on the 

 "West Coast than in the Carnatic. The red colour of the abdomen 

 is, I think, seasonal, and confined to the males. Mr. Gray mentions 

 that, before my specimens were sent home, it was onty known by the 

 figure in Hardwicke.* 



Gen. EUPREPES. 



Etjprepes trilineata — Gray, 1. c. 



Ears with two elongated scales in front, scales five-keeled, above 

 pale yellow brown, beneath yellowish white, 3 white stripes edged 

 with black on anterior half of the back, legs reddish. 



Length of one 7~ inches, of which the tail is nearly 4. 



This well marked species is locally distributed. I have found it 

 only in sandy ground, near the sea in the Carnatic, concealing itself 

 in holes and fissures, and under shrubs. 



I procured, on one occasion, a specimen of a small Scink in the 

 forests of Malabar, which appeared distinct from any of the previous 

 ones. It was uniform dark above and whitish beneath, body com- 

 pressed, and scales two-keeled. Unfortunately, however, it was de- 

 stroyed before I made a full description of it. I may here mention 

 that Goniodactylns indicus, Calotes viridis, Salea Jerdoni, Mocoa 

 bilineata, Riopa albopunctata, and Ewprepes trilineata, were described 

 by Mr. Gray from specimens sent home by me to the British 

 Museum. 



* The Society has a small specimen from Asam which may be T. multicari- 

 nata, (Kuhl?), apud Gray. Scales distinctly seven-keeled. Colour greyish olive- 

 green above, with dark spots on the hinder part of the body and base of tail. 

 Lateral band, commencing from the ears, dark olive, with three narrow whitish 

 stripes along the basal half of the tail, which are broken into spots on the sides 

 of the body. Terminal half of tail whitish. Below also white, with obscure dark 

 strise. 



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