360 Kept ilia and Amphibia from Central India. [No. 4, 



Unfortunately K u li 1 ' s Beitrage is not procurable in Calcutta, 

 and I have not access, therefore, to the original description of Seine us 

 mult i car hiatus. The characters of the British Museum specimens 

 from the Philippines, as given by Gr r a y in the Catalogue of the 

 specimens of Lizards, 1845, p. 109, shew totally different coloration 

 from E. macularius, an important character where the ornamenta- 

 tion is so constant as it appears to be in the Indian species ; the 

 head shields are said to be rather rugose, the scales large, ovate, 

 and transverse. These are not the characters of JB, macula rt as, 

 which has smooth head plates, and hexagonal scales about equally 

 broad and long. 



From E. carinatus this species may be distinguished by the more 

 numerous keels and the coloration, by its much smaller size and 

 narrower form. 



Loc. Not rare in the Eastern part of Chanda and in Bhandara. 

 Extremely abundant (far more so than E. carinatus) throughout 

 the sal forests in Bilaspiir, Udiprir and Jashpuz west of Chota-Nag- 

 pi'ir. 



10. E. (Tiliqua) septemlineatus, sp. nov. PI. xvi, Figs. 7-8. 



E. parvus, similis E. carinato sed multo minor, supra et ad laterd 

 nigresccnte brunneus, albido longitudinaliter 1-lineatus, ventre alb i do, 

 squamis tricarinatis in 30 seriebus longitudinalibus, palpebra inferior! 

 striis impress is siynata. 



Desc. Form moderately slender. A pair of supranasals. The sin- 

 gle prefrontal is just separated from the rostral, and more broadly 

 from the vertical ; fifth upper labial elongate. Lower eyelid with 

 faint lines on it throughout and with no transparent disk. Ear open- 

 ing small, with two or three well marked denticles in front. Scales 

 three keeled, in 30 longitudinal rows, and about 28 transverse be- 

 tween the axils, prseanal and subcaudal scales not enlarged. Co- 

 lour brownish black above with seven equidistant narrow white 

 longitudinal stripes, three on the back and two on each side, the 

 upper of the latter arising from the supercilia, the lower froni the 

 upper labials. These bands are only lost on the tail down which 

 some of them extend. Plates on the top of the head dark in the 

 centre with pale margins, limbs dark above, the hind legs with 

 white spots : lower parts white. 



