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All my specimens from Chanda, Kaipiir and Chota-Nagpiir differ 

 so much from Q-iinther's description, that until I had an op- 

 portunity of comparing them, I supposed them to be either a varie- 

 ty of Tiliqua trivittata, Gray, or else a new species. The most 

 marked peculiarity of all the sj)ecimens I have collected is the exis- 

 tence of five keels on the dorsal and lateral scales instead of three, 

 the usual number in E. carinatus. Occasionally the two outer keels 

 are more or less obsolete on part of the back and sides, but in most 

 specimens there are five well marked keels throughout. Specimens 

 from Bengal and the countries to the eastward have only three 

 keels in general, but careful examination usually shows the pre- 

 sence of the two others more or less imperfectly developed on a few 

 scales, usually on those of the loins. 



D u m e r i 1 and Bibron notice this, but they are in error 

 in supposing, p. 694, that the young has " sometimes seven but 

 more frequently five keels," and they have evidently confounded 

 E. macularius, B 1 j t h or else E. muiticarinatus, K u h 1, with the 

 young of E. carinatus, as did also Cantor, {vide T h e o b. Cat. 

 Kept. p. 24, J. A. S. B., Bart II, 1868). I obtained several young 

 specimens which I take to belong to the latter, of various sizes up 

 to about 5 inches in length. All have three keels only.* 



I cannot attach much importance to the form of the anterior head 

 shields. In some specimens the prefrontal touches the vertical, in 

 others it is widely separated. 



In coloration, specimens of Euprcpes carinatus from localities as 

 distant from each other as S. E. Berar and Chota Nagpiir agree 

 perfectly, but they differ somewhat from all described varieties, 

 though approaching G ii n t h e r's var. a and D u m. et B i- . 

 b r o n ' s var. A. The following description is taken from a fresh 

 specimen. 



Back olive, the posterior edges of the scales darker in some spe- 

 cimens ; superciliary stripe white, continued as a well marked white 

 band down the sides of the back to the insertion of the tail and 

 continued as a pale but not white band on the tail for about one-third 

 of its length ; beneath the narrow white band is a broad chesnut one 



* If not the young of E. carinatus, these belong to an untlescribed species, 

 but all my specimens appear to be immature. 



