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flexible than in any other specimen I observed. The form of the 

 head and the shields on it are perfectly the same as in other Indian 

 and Malayan specimens; the supra-nasals form a short snture 

 behind the rostral ; there are only twenty-six longitudinal series of 

 scales, these are large, tricarinate, the middle carina being weaker 

 than the lateral ones. The specimen is above uniform, somewhat 

 pale brown, paler on the sides towards the belly, and with a few 

 indistinct darker spots, fore and hind limbs are above wholly 

 spotted with white and dark brown ; below yellowish white, tail 

 leaden grey. It is a peculiarly large variety, but except in size and 

 length of tail I can find no other specific distinction in the 

 specimen. Possibly other specimens when found may exhibit grea- 

 ter variations from the type. 



25. Tiliqua rugifera, n. sp., PL x, Fig. 3. 



Body moderately stout, it and the head somewhat depressed, tail 

 nearly one-third longer, sub-cylindrical, very gradually tapering. 

 Fore-limb feeble, one when laid forward reaches to the anterior angle 

 of the eye, hind limb very nearly as long as the distance between 

 it and the fore-limb. The fingers are comparatively slightly 

 developed : the thumb is moderate, shortest, the fifth finger about 

 twice as long, the second very little longer than the fifth, and the 

 third and fourth are sub-equal. The inner toe is the shortest, the 

 second is double the length, then comes the fifth, then the third 

 and the fourth is longest, being fully one-fourth longer than the 

 third. Toes and fingers are slender and provided with small, moder- 

 ately curved claws. 



The rostral is broader than high, just reaching the top of the 

 head ; the pre-frontal forms a very narrow suture with it, as well 

 as with the first pre -ocular on either side, and with the vertical, the 

 larger sides between these narrow sutures being somewhat concave ; 

 post-frontals separated, on the side in contact with the two loreals ; 

 vertical elongated, tapering posteriorly, but terminating with an 

 obtuse angle ; four supraciliaries, moderately elevated, the fourth 

 multicarinated and below followed by small shields ; five occipitals, 

 the first two narrow, forming a suture behind the vertical and 

 scarcely reaching further posteriorly than the angle of the eye, 



