1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Beptilia. 169 



position of the femoral pores in an angular series. The coloration is 

 quite the same in the present species as in Gym. pulcJiellm of which 

 Cantor (Jour. Asiat. Soc. B. xvi., 1847, p. 632) says that is 

 common in the houses on Penang hill ; unfortunately I never saw 

 this last one, though I looked very carefully after it. The present 

 species, differs from this last by the peculiarly carinated scales, 

 no enlarged chin shields or sub-caudals, and apparently more 

 slender toes and fingers ; it also has no enlarged femoral or 

 preanal shield swhich, Cantor says, are in Gf. pulchellus, well 

 developed, even in the female, though not pierced. 



Total length 4 inches, the tail hardly less than the body. 



Fam. Soincid2e. 



24. Tiliqua carinata, S c h n e i d. 



Ewp. rufescens apud G u n t h., 1. cit., p. 79. 



Eup. carinatus apud Steindachner, Rept. Novara, p. 43. 



The brown variety with indistinct pale bands on each side of the 

 back, with numerous obliquely ascending black streaks, and with 

 white spots each margined black above and below, is common about 

 Moulmein and down the Tenasserim coast. 



The same variety, but on the upper portion of the sides usually 

 marked with blood red, is common at Penang and also on the coast 

 of the Welesley Province. One specimen from the last locality has 

 on either side, a large red orange spot (turning in spirits into 

 white), and no small ocelli. It has the vertical posteriorly united 

 with the anterior occipitals, and the adjoining shields are also 

 more or less confluent, — apparently this part has once been injured. 

 The pre-frontal very narrowly touches the rostral, but in other 

 specimens, this is quite separated by the supra-nasals. None 

 of the Malayan specimens have a distinct trace of a pale band on 

 the sides of the back. All I saw were of the usual size, 12-15 

 inches. Steindachner also mentions this species from the 

 Nicobar islands ; possibly the specimen, if not well preserved, may 

 belong to the next which I believe to be new. 



The largest specimen, I ever saw, is one lately sent to me by Mr. 

 Eoepstorff from the Andamans ; it measures twenty inches, 

 of which the tail is very nearly twelve inches, this last is more 



