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There are, I may add, one or two minor discrepancies in the de- 

 scriptions of the French and English authors which, although unim- 

 portant by themselves, tend to support the view here taken of their 

 having had different species before them. D u m. et Bib. describe 

 the 6 rows of ventral plates thus; " aux deux series medianes et 

 aux deux marginales elles presentent moins de largeur qu' aux 

 deux autres." In the original description of Cabrita brunneai 

 Gray says " Ventral shields 6 -rowed, central ones narrowed on 

 each side" and in Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. " Ventral shields 6-rowed, 

 the middle row on each side largest." Both D u m e r i 1 and 

 B i b r o n had examined Mr. Bell's collection, but I can find no 

 reference in their work to Cabrita brunnea. 



In these points of difference, the specimens procured by me in 

 Central India, coincide with the description of Calosaura Leschenaid- 

 tii, and differ from Gray's species. The only differences which 

 I can observe between my specimens and the description by D u m e- 

 r i 1 and B i b r o n are. that in the latter one large pneanal shield is 

 stated to be surrounded by small scales, whereas in Central Indian 

 specimens, there are two enlarged prseanal plates one before the 

 other, the posterior being the largest, and whereas in the type in 

 Paris the temporal regions are said to have three small quadrilate- 

 ral plates against the upper border, in my specimens there is one 

 long plate above the small scales covering the temples. The latter 

 character is certainly of no consequence, and the amount to which 

 the anterior prreanal plate is enlarged varies in different indivi- 

 duals. I unhesitatingly refer the lizards collected by myself to 

 Calosaura Leschenaidtii. 



The question then arises, what is the locality of Cabrita brunnea, 

 and is it congeneric with Calosaura Leschenaidtii ? G r a y in the 

 Catalogue of Lizards in the British Museum, 1845, p. 43, certainly 

 gives India as the locality for the specimens in B e 1 1 ' s collection, 

 but unfortunately British Museum Catalogues are fallible on the 

 score of localities, and in 1 838 it was not known whence Mr. B e 1 1 's 

 specimens were obtained. 



Mr. B 1 y t h in his notes to Dr. J e r d o n ' s Catalogue, J. A. 

 S. B. xxii, p. 476, stated that the Museum of the Asiatic Society 

 had at that time, 1853, examples of what he took to be Calosaura 



