1870.] Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India, 345 



tion. On the intermediate specimen, the granules were fewer in 

 number and on the largest they were obsolete. 



Loc. With Pangshura tectum var. intermedia in the Hasdo river, 

 a tributary of the Mahanaddi. 



Satjeia. 

 4. Cabrita Leschenatjltii (M. Ed.) 



D u m. et. B i b. Erp. Gen. V, p. 262, nee Gray, nee Giinther. 



There has evidently been some confusion about this species. I 

 have not access to the original description by Milne Edwards, 

 but the excellent detailed account of the characters in Dumeril 

 and B i b r o n is taken from authenticated specimens of Milne 

 Edwards' species and I believe from the type. Dr. Q- ii n t h e r 

 had no specimen to examine, and appears to have accepted G r a y ' s 

 opinion of the identity of his Cabrita hrunnea with Dumeril and 

 Bibron's Calosaura Leschenaultii. 



All writers appear to have overlooked the fact, that Cabrita hrun- 

 nea is a different lizard from Lacerta Leschenaultii, as will be seen 

 by the following comparison of the characters taken from Gray's 

 description in one case, and Dumeril and Bibron's in the other. 



Cabrita hrunnea, Gr r a y, Ann. Calosaura Leschenaultii, D u m. 



and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838, Ser. 1, and B i b., 1839, loc. cit. 

 Yol. I, p. 282. 



Nostrils in a horizontal suture La narine . . est situee positive- 

 between two small nasal shields ment a l'extremite du canthus 

 having a smaller one behind rostralis entre deux plaques qui 

 them. (In Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. s'articulent avec la rostrale. Les 

 p. 43. Nostrils on the muzzle deux plaques naso-rostr ales... ont 

 ridge between a superior and derriere elles une paire de petites 

 inferior nasal plate with a small plaques qui sont les analogues 

 hinder nasal. Gr ii n t h e r des naso-frenales des Lezards. 

 gives the same description with 

 only trifling verbal alterations.) 



Cabrita hrunnea was described by Gray from a specimen of 

 unknown locality in the collection of Mr. Thomas Bell. Lacerta 

 Leschenaultii was founded on lizards sent from the Coast of 

 Coromandel by M. Leschenaul t. 



