DR. J, ANDERSON ON THE REPTILES 



3 or 4 feet. The Sellings assert that this lizard devours their 

 dead, as they do not bury, but expose their deceased relatives and 

 friends on platforms in the recesses of the forest ; and one man 

 informed me that he had seen as many as fifteen lizards engaged 

 on a ghastly meal of this kind. 



Varanus nebttlostjs, Gray. 



1 King Island. 



Family SciNCiDiE. 

 Mabuia multifasciata, Kuld. 



2 Mergui ; 6 Taing and Yimiki, King Island ; and 1 Sullivan 

 Island. 



This lizard, although only one specimen was obtained, was 

 common in a swamp on Sullivan Island, at the mouth of a small 

 freshwater stream covered with little eminences on which Nipa 

 fnicticans was growing. Among the palms, that curious crus- 

 tacean Thalassina anomala had thrown up the great mud mounds 

 that occur over its underground chambers. They were strewn 

 with the fallen leaves of the palm, and were more or less riddled 

 with holes made by the crustacean, the eminences being converted 

 into islets at high tide. In this locality this skink lay basking 

 in the early morning sun, and when disturbed retreated either 

 under the decaying vegetation or into the holes on the slopes of 

 the mounds. 



Lygosoma maculatum, Blyfh. 



G Mergui ; 12 Taing, Thapo, and Yimiki, King Island ; 9 

 Elphinstone Island; and 1 Sullivan Island. 



Common in the northern part of the Archipelago, but seemingly 

 rare in the south. The specimen procured at Sullivan Island was 

 found in the partially dry bed of a freshwater stream. 



Lyoohoma ohvaceum, Gray. 

 1 Taing, King Island. 



Lygosoma alboim nctatum, Gray. 



l Mergui; 1 Elphinstone Island; and 1 Sullivan Island. 



Order OPHIDIA. 



Family XEVOPELT ID M. 



Xenopkltts unicolob, Iteimv. 

 1 Mergui. 



