174 Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. [No. 3, 



I think Fitzinger's genus Malouya should be accepted 

 as emended by Gray (Lizards, p. 94), taking the West Indian 

 M. agilis as type. It seems to form a very good natural group, 

 apparently generically distinct from JEuprepes, as restricted. The 

 type ofWiegmanns Mcmeces is according to Peters* Scincus 

 pavwientatus, Gr e o f f., and is the same as Plestiodon of Dum. and 

 Bib., therefore Malouya (as characterized by G- r a y) cannot be 

 taken as subgeneric of Eumeces. 



28. Hinulia maculata, B 1 y th, sp. 



Lissonota maculata, B 1 y t h, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1853, xxii, p. 653. 



Mabouia maculata, apud G ii n t h e r, 1. cit. p. 84. 



Hinulia maculata, apud Theobald, Cat. Rept. Asiat. Mus. p. 25. 



Head rather short, sub-trigonal with an obtuse snout, rostral 

 reaching far back to the surface of the head, the pre-frontal forms 

 a suture with it and with the vertical, the post-frontals being 

 rather small and widely separated ; five supraciliaries, rather 

 tumid ; vertical, considerably narrowed posteriorly, almost termina- 

 ting in a point, followed with the regular two pairs of occipitals, the 

 hinder separated by an elongated shield ; nostrils lateral at the 

 base of a single shield reaching to the top of the head and bent 

 over the canthus rostralis ; fifth lower labial below the orbit, near- 

 ly as large as the sixth, which is often followed by a seventh 

 small labial ; two large loreals followed by two small shields 

 superseding a single large one in front of the eye ; eyelids scaly ; 

 opening of the ear elongately oval, vertical, rather large, with no 

 spines in front. 



There are 34-38 longitudinal series of scales round the middle of 

 the body, and about 96 scales in one row between the front and 

 hind leg ; six pre-anal shields, the middle pair the largest and 

 elongated ; subcaudals enlarged. Fore foot when laid forward very 

 nearly reaches the eye in some specimens, in others, it reaches even 

 as far as the front edge of the eye ; the hind-leg in some does not 

 reach the axil, in others it does ; as a rule, young specimens have 

 longer limbs than old ones ; the third and fourth fingers are sub- 

 equal, the third being sometimes very little longer ; the fourth toe is 

 * Monat. Akad. Berlin, 1864, p. 48. 



