652 Notices and Descriptions of various Reptiles. [No. 7. 



medial portion,) are throughout scattered, and there are some black 

 markings on the head. 



M. sikimmensis, nobis, n. s. A small species, about 4 in. long, 

 the tail varying in length in different individuals. In one the head 

 and body measure If in., the tail 2f in. ; in another the head and 

 body measure If in., the tail but 2 in. This difference is probably 

 sexual, the former proportions denoting the male, and the latter the 

 female.* Closely affined to the preceding species, but much smaller, 

 flatter, and more lustrous, with proportionally much more slender toes. 

 Colour of the upper parts nacreous olive-green, with three irregular 

 black lines or rows of specks along the back, not always very con- 

 spicuous. A broad black lateral band, becoming obsolete along the 

 sides of the tail, is margined with a glistening pale greenish stripe 

 above, and variegated with spots of the same along its lower half 

 and on the outside of the limbs. Under-parts greenish-white, except 

 the tail and below the limbs where the colour is rufous-white. Some 

 have a few dark spots on the throat. Hab. Sikim, where procured 

 by Capt. W. S. Sherwill. 



Plestiodon qtjadeilineatum, nobis, n. s. Proportions of Tili- 

 qtja ; the head small, but its plates almost exactly as in Pl. laticeps 

 of N. America. Colour blackish above, pearly white below ; two dorsal 

 greenish-white streaks, commencing at the nostrils and gradually 

 disappearing at about the middle of the tail ; these streaks being 

 exterior of the two alternating series of medial and hexagonal dorsal 

 scales : also a lateral pale streak from fore to hind limb, which is 

 more or less indicated on the neck and base of tail, close upon the 

 whitish hue of the under-parts. Length 7-| in., of which the tail 

 measures 4f in. ; of hind-limb y|- in. China (Hong Kong ?). J. C. 

 Bowring, Esq. 



Euprepes macularitjs, nobis, n. s. Affined to Etj. ctanogastee, 

 (Lesson, v. Eu. sechellensis, D. & B.) Like Tiliqua rtjeescens, 

 (Shaw), but the scales of the upper-parts 5-7 carinate, and colour 

 bronzed olive-green above, pale below ; the hinder half of back and 

 base of tail above marked with irregular reddish-brown spots, and a 

 broad reddish-brown lateral streak continued from the ear to the 

 middle of the tail, marked throughout with white, which tends to 

 * The same variation occurs in the species of Riopa, Gray. 



