130 W. T. Blanford—WNotes on Reptilia. [No. 3, 
ACANTHOSAURA ARMATA. 
Tam indebted to Mr. Davison for specimens of this lizard from the 
neighbourhood of Moulmainand from Tavoy. Both forms differ some- 
what in coloration from the published description. The Moulmain speci- 
mens are large, being nearly 12 inches long, and all the upper portions are 
dusky, the tail with pale rings, lower parts pale, the colour extending up the 
sides of the head and neck, in the former to just below the eyeandin front 
tothe canthus rostralis and on the neck, so that there is only a belt of black 
about one-eighth of an inch broad on each side of the crest ; no radiating 
lines from the orbit over the lip. In the Tavoy specimens, which are 
younger, the upper parts are mottled with dusky and grey. 
OPHIDIA. 
HYPSIRHINA MACULATA, sp. nov. 
Hypsirhina ad H. chinensem affinis, sed squamis in 25 nee 23 series 
regulares longitudinales ordinatis, scutis ventralibus ad 125. Oaput breve, 
rostrum truncatum, corpus robustum, cauda compressa. Scutum prefron- 
tale unicum parvum, singulis postfrontalibus magnitudine secundum ; pre- 
oculare wnicum, postocularia duo. Obolor fusco-cinerascens, nigro-maculatus, 
abdomine albescente, fascia fusca longitudinali utringue ad margines scuto- 
rum ventraliwm ornato. 
Habitat in Pegu Burmanorun. 
Head short, very little broader than the neck, muzzle broad, square, as 
if truncated, body stout, tail short compressed. Scales polished, rhombic, in 
twenty-five very regular series. Ventrals narrow 125, anal bifid, subcaudals 
in 45 pairs. 
The rostral, which just reaches the upper surface of the head, does not 
occupy much more than half the anterior margin of the upper jaw. The 
single anterior frontal is nearly as long as broad, and is a little smaller than 
each of the posterior frontals ; vertical fully twice as long as broad, elongately 
subpentagonal ; occipitalsa little longer than the vertical. Loreal trapezoi- 
dal, on one side the loreal is partly united to the postfrontal ; one pre-, two 
post-oculars. T’emporals 1 + 2. Upper labials 8, gradually increasing in 
size to the 7th; the eighth is small and no larger than the adjoining scales, 
the 4th enters the orbit. Only one pair of large chin-shields, the posterior 
pair scarcely exceed the adjoining scales in size. ; 
Colour blackish ashy with a row of large irregular-shaped black spots 
down the back and another rather less in size, but each spot including 
several scales, down each side; a blackish band down the margins of the 
ventrals caused by the dark edges of the shields and of the first row of 
scales on each side. 
