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agilis, Olivier (Trapelus flavimaculatus, Euppell, or a most closely 

 affined species), from the Punjab Salt Eange ; Calotes tricarinatus, 

 {J. A. S. XXII, 652), Darjiling ;* Acanthodactylus vulgaris, Dumeril 

 and Bibron, Punjab Salt Eange ;f Mocoa sikimmensis (J. A. S. XXII, 

 652), Kashmir (!) ; Eurylepis t^niolatus, n. s. et g., Punjab Salt Eange ; 

 Tortrix eryx {Eryx indica, Gray), ditto ; Calamaria fusca (J. A. S. 

 XXIII, 288), Darjiling ; Coronella callicephalus, Gray (XXIII, 289), 

 ditto ; Coluber vittacaudatus, n. s., ditto ; Tropidonotus dipsas, var.^ 

 (J. A. S. XXIII, 297), ditto ; and Vipera echis, Ind. var. (remarkably 

 fine), from the Punjab Salt Eange. § 



* Several specimens are all of the same small size as the example originally 

 described. 



f Figured by Savigny, Rept. d' Egypt, Supp. pi. 1, f. 9.— N. B. The Ac. nil- 

 gheuriensis, Jerdon, J. A. 8. XXII, 476. is an Eremias, Fitzinger. 



% Almost plain blackish above, buffy-white below, with a lateral row of black 

 spots, — one near the margin of each abdominal scuta, beginning from about a 

 fourth of the entire length; a whitish V-like mark behind the occiput. 



§ Cyrtodactylus macularius, nobis, n. s. Apparently affined to C. mar. 

 moratus, (Kuhl), of the Malay countries ; with tail granular beneath, as in that 

 species : scales on throat minute, becoming gradually larger to the abdomen. The 

 very young have probably the crown black ; a broad black band across the nape ; 

 two others upon the body, between the fore and hind-limbs ; another where the 

 hind-limbs are articulated; and three more upon the tail, besides its black tip: 

 the inter-spaces being of a fine rosy-carneous hue, with a few black tubercles 

 interspersed among the numerous pale tubercles : limbs and under-parts spotless, 

 on the former slightly marked. In a specimen not half-grown, the interior of the 

 black bands is pale and speckled with black, the margins continuing black ; and 

 it is probable that the dark hue ultimately disappears from the interior of the 

 patches. In the specimen under examination, the dark hue appears to have almost 

 left the crown, its blackish margin only remaining, as a streak from the nostril 

 through the eye and continued round to join its opposite upon the occiput : crown 

 and cheeks mottled with dark spots more or less confluent ; and the interspace from 

 the occiput to the nape-band has many black tubercles. The length of this young 

 specimen (which had lost and renewed its tail-tip) is 3£ in. from snout to vent : 

 but Mr. Theobald informs us that the species attains more than double the size, 

 and when alive is remarkable for the beauty of its prevailing rosy-carneous hue. 

 It probably attains the size of C. pulchellus. From the Punjab Salt Range. 



Laudakia (?) mislanura, nobis, n. s. A well marked second species of Dr. 

 Gray's genus Laudakia, founded on the Agama tuberculata of Hardwicke's 

 ///. Ind. Zool. ; if not, rather, a new genus affined to Laudakia (in which case 

 this may bear the name Plocederma, nobis). Head and body flat, or depressed: 

 the tail more than twice the length of the head and body ; and slender, except 

 towards its base, where depressed and broad. Longest fore-toe reaching to the 

 vent : longest hind-toe to the eye. Tympana large and round ; their circum- 



