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with black against a white line which runs from behind the eye- 

 brows to the tail, below this on the sides is a band of brown, finely 

 mottled with black, then another white line less distinct than the 

 first, running from the upper labials through the tympanum and 

 just above the shoulder to the thigh. Below this from the thigh 

 to the shoulder is an apple green band broken by black mottling, 

 especially above in front. Some black spots and occasionally mot- 

 tling occur on both upper and lower labials. Lower parts pure 

 white. Limbs above brown finely mottled with black. 



A female killed in April contains 6 eggs, each about t 3 q inch 

 long. The femoral pores vary in number from 13 to 15, and the 

 transverse rows of ventral shields from 24 to 27 in the specimens 

 before me. On such slender evidence, nothing certain can be stated 

 as to the connection between the number of the latter and sex, but 

 in 2 females the ventral shields are in 27 transverse rows, whilst 

 a male has 24. 



Loc. S. E. Berar and Chanda, not common. A single specimen 

 was also obtained in Udipur between Chhatisgarh and Chota Nag- 

 pur. 



5. Cabeita Jerdoxi, Beddome. 



Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science, January, 1870, p. 34. 



Major Beddome obtained only a single specimen of this 

 interesting form. I have been more fortunate, having found a small 

 lizard abundant in several localities, which I have no doubt is that 

 described, but which has the nasal shields different from those in 

 G. Zesche?iaultii. In my specimens the nostril is between three 

 shields, one prae- and two post-nasals, the pramasal large, articu- 

 lating with the rostral, the opposite nasal and the prefrontal, one 

 shield behind and below the nostril which joins the first labial 

 and the anterior loreal, and one behind on the canthus i-ostralis 

 which touches the anterior loreal and the praBfrontal. In every 

 other detail, my specimens agree with Major Beddome's de- 

 scription.* 



* Since writing the above, I have heard from Major Beddome, to whom 

 I sent a specimen, that it agrees exactly with his type. Major Beddome 

 also informs me that he proposes to make this species the type of a new genus 

 Cabritopsis on account of the differences in the nasal plates. I prefer keeping 

 C. Jerdoni in Cabrita, as the distinctions scarcely appear sufficient to require 



