1872.] 
F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. 
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Cat.otes Elliotti, Gunther. 
Gunther I. It., p. 142. — Jerdon, J. A. S. B., xxii, p. 471, and Proc 
A. S. B. for 1870, p. 77. 
I collected this species at Matheran,* near Bombay. It is quite distinct 
from Rouxii. The shoulder-fold is bluish black. It seems to he quite as much 
terrestrial, as arboreal in its habit. The small scales of the body (about 56 
round the middle of it) , and the little spine behind each superciliary edge 
strongly recall Oharasia. Some of the scales at the side of the body are 
yellow, but they are not apparently larger than others. Colour — pale brown, 
bright red on the head and about the shoulders, rest of upper side with indis- 
tinct dark stripes ; lips and the knees dark ; claws above black ; throat reddish, 
tinged with bluish ; rest of under-side white. The fore limb reaches to the 
groin, when laid backward, and the hind limb to the anterior edge of the eye, 
when laid forward. 
In one specimen the head and body are ,2i) and the tail 5|, = 8 inches. 
Steleiq, Daudin (I. B., p. 157). 
Four species of this genus can be distinguished in India, all appear to 
inhabit the Himalayas, or the country close to the base of the hills. 
1. St. Dayanas, n. sp. Scales of the back moderate, smaller but conti- 
nuous on the neck ; enlarged scales at the side numerous. Hardwar. 
2. St. tuberculatus, Gray. Scales of the back small, very much smaller 
or granular on neck ; enlarged scales at the sides scattered, generally few, or 
nearly all obsolete. Southern slopes of the Himalayas. 
3. St. melanurus, Blyth (comp. Proc. A. S. B., Sept. 1871, p. 189). 
Enlarged scales of the back unequal, those composing a few median rows 
considerably larger than others on either side. Panjab and Kashmir. 
4. St. Himalayanus, Steindachner, (Novara Bept., Pt. I, 1S67, p. 22). 
Enlarged scales of the hack smooth ; Ladak, Northern Indus valley. 
I shall note in greater detail the two first mentioned species, as they 
are closely allied to each other, while the two remaining are so entirely dis- 
tinct that there can be no mistake about them. 
Stellio Dayantts, n. sp. 
PI. Ill, fig. 4. "Upper view of the anterior part of tlie body. 
Head depressed, covered with small sharply keeled shields, irregular 
in form, slightly larger on the canthus rostralis and becoming gradually im- 
bricate on the hind occiput ; nostril in the hinder part of an elongate swollen 
shield, narrow in front, but usually separated from the rostral, as well as from 
the first labial, by a separate shield ; a ridge of somewhat larger scales origi- 
* Giinther refers, I suppose, to the present species when noticing C. Rouxi from 
Matheran (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 501). 
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