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including the eye and the upper part of the ear, and extending 

 backwards as far as the thigh : lower part of the sides of the head 

 including the upper labials white, as are sometimes all the lower 

 parts, but they are more frequently golden yellow, in some cases 

 with a blotchy scarlet band, extending from the shoulder to the 

 thigh, below the chesnut portion of the sides, a pale whitish line 

 intervening between the two colours. These red patches I believe 

 to be seasonal, and so is perhaps, to some extent, the golden yel- 

 low of the under surface, which varies also in extent. These red 

 and yellow colours fade in spirit. 



In the specimens which I suppose to be young, the back has a 

 coppery tinge only seen in fresh specimens. Nearly all, both young 

 and adult, have 32 rows of scales round the body, a few specimens 

 having 30 or 31. The largest specimen obtained by me measures 

 10.5 inches, of which the tail is 6.5. This is decidedly smaller than 

 specimens from Lower Bengal and the Burmese countries. 



Whether the form inhabiting the Indian Peninsula deserves se- 

 paration from the Bengal and Burmese species I am not certain, 

 but I think the difference in the development of the keels on the 

 scales, and in the coloration, eastern specimens being almost uni- 

 form, shew the two to be well marked races. 



Log. Euprepes carinatus I found, although not very common, 

 throughout the country traversed, vi%., in S. E. Berar, Chanda, 

 Bhandara, Paipiir and Bilaspiir in the Central Provinces and in the 

 country west of Chota-Nagpur. I did not observe it in the sal 

 forests of the latter region, it is usually seen in thin tree jungle 

 with underwood, or amongst bushes. 



E. trivittata, Dr. Jerdon informs me, occurs at Nagptir. j 

 did not meet with it to the southward or eastward. The speci- 

 men in the Museum at Calcutta differs not only, as pointed out by 

 Theobald, in having five keels on the scales throughout, but 

 also in those keels being stouter, more regular and more equally 

 developed than in carinatus, in the very different coloration, three 

 broad white bands with distinct edges down the back, and in the 

 number of scales, there being 36 longitudinal rows round the 

 body. 



