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less close and narrower than in Ilardwieldi. It is beautifully 

 banded with white, having one nuchal band as in the last named 

 species, but 3 dorsal ones, besides one on the root of the tail. Its 

 head and body are If inches long, but the tail is imperfect. 



Of the AgamidcG I have obtained two apparently new species of 

 Japalura, one from Sikkim, the other from the Khasi hills, which I 

 have named respectively microlepis and planidorsata. The former, 

 of which I only obtained one specimen, differs conspicuously from 

 variegata, which is also extremely common in Darjeeling, by the 

 much smaller scales being more sparingly mixed with large ones. 

 The back is reddish, abruptly separated from the greenish color 

 of the sides by a series of somewhat raised scales ; the dorsal crest 

 is very low and continued to the base of the tail. The head and 

 body is 2§ inches ; the tail (imperfect) 2^. 



The other new species is a very remarkable one, lately procured in 

 the Khasi hills ; the back is very flat, in which it resembles the last ; 

 it has no nuchal nor dorsal crest, but a double series of very slightly 

 enlarged keeled scales separated by only one row of smaller scales, 

 but on the neck by four or five ; and there are several series of 

 angularly bent larger scales, the angles directed backwards. The 

 superciliary scales are strongly keeled, and there are several scales 

 above the tympanum enlarged and prominent. It has a strong 

 similarity in the arrangement of the scales to Japalura Swinhonis 

 from China. 



One specimen from head and body nearly 2, tail about 3| inches. 

 I found two specimens only. They are of a dull yellowish colour 

 with dusky cross bands, and the sides mottled dusky. 



Peters* has two sub-genera, which with Japalura should perhaps 

 form sub-divisions of Otocryptis, all agreeing in the concealed 

 tympanum. He describes a Ptycolcemus gularis from Calcutta 

 (bought). 



The smaller race of Sitana, being the one procured at Pondi- 

 cherry and the south of India, must retain Guerin's name of Sitana 

 ponticeriana ; and the Deccan species, being the larger of the two, 

 cannot well stand as S. minor , and will require a new name, for 

 which I propose Deccaucnsis, that part of India being its head 

 quarters. 



* Monat. Berl. Akad., 1864, p. 386. 



