Catalogue of Reptiles. 23 



FAMILY GYMNOPHTHALMIDiE. 



ABLEPHARUS, Cocteau. 

 15. A. Pannonicus, Licht. 



a. in spirit. Eastern Europe. Hungarian 



Museum. 

 FAMILY SCINCULE. 



a. scales keeled. 



TROPIDOPHORUS, Dumb 'ml et Bibron. 

 1G. T. Berdmoreii, Blyth. 



Aspris Berdmoreii^ Blyih^ 

 J. A. B., XXIL, p. 650. 

 a. 1). c. specimens in spirit. Mcrgui. Major Berdmore. 



CYCLODUS, Waoler. 



17. C. Gigas, Bodd. 



a. b. c. stuffed adults. Van Dieman's Purchased. 



land. 

 d. half grown ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 



TRACHYDOSAURUS, Gray. 



18. T. rugosa, Gray. 



a. h. stuffed adults. Western Australia. Purchased, 



Labelled, Egenia. 



TILIQUA, Gray. 



19. T. rufescens, Shaw. 



Scincus mtiUffasciatus, Kuhl apud Ganilicr. 

 T. trivittata, apud Guntlicr. 



a. very large specimen Andamans. Lieut. -Colonel 

 in spirit, 18 inches. Keels very faint. Tytler. 



Scincus Tytleriij Tytler 3ISS. 



b. many specimens in spirit 



c. nearly adult ditto. India. Dr. Jerdon. 



The coloration of this very common lizard is somewhat variable. During 

 life, the colour of the back is some shade of rich olive brown or bronze with 

 the sides darker, and a pale stripe running from over the eye down each side 

 of the back, which is more or less black dotted. Beneath greyish orj'ellow- 

 ish. Sides seasonally deeply suffused with red. Unfortunately the specimens 

 in the Museum, which should possess an unrivalled series of this species, are 

 nearly all jumbled into one bottle with no record of either donors or localities^ 

 so that it is impossible to discriminate local varieties. 



The red spotted variety, which Gunther records as found on the east side of 

 the Bay of Bengal is, I imagine, a merely seasonal garb. Cantor describes 



