116 F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. [No. 1, 
more or less spotted and tinged with reddish blue, extending partially on the 
chest, and in adult males the whole of the under side, including the lower side 
of the limbs, is bluish black, brightest aud strongly tinged with purple on the 
throat, the same tinge extending on the neck, the shoulders and sides of the 
belly. An adult male is really a gorgeously coloured lizard. The usual 
habitat is between large rocks on bare or opeu slopes of hills. 
Sab . — I have received numerous specimens of this species from Karnaon 
(near Almorah) through Mr. A. W. Lawder ; from Kangra and Dalhousie 
through Dr. Day, and from Mari through Mr. A. B. Wynne. About 
Simla; in Kulu, all through Chamba, Kishtw.ir and in Kashmir, I have in 
former years collected this species largely, it ranges up to 12,000 feet, 
and if the Spiti form is the same species, I have observed it up to nearly 
14,000 feet. 
There can be no doubt about Blyth’s St. indicus being the same as tuber - 
culatus , but whether the sjiecies really occurs in the plains near Mirzapur 
and Wuzirabad, I have not as yet been able to ascertain. 
Tiatus scbcristata, Blyth. 
In addition to my description of this Andaman and Nicobar lizard in 
J. A. S. B., vol. xxxix, p. 180, 1 have to note the following. — The number of 
scales round the body varies between 90 and a little above 100, 18-22 scales 
being on the ventral side. The two groups of enlarged, or rather often only 
more pointed, scales on the upper side of the occiput usually exist only in old 
males. The subcaudals are slightly larger than the scales above and at the 
sides of the tail, the latter being more distinctly imbricate. The fore-limb 
when laid backward occasionally reaches as far as the anus, and the hind- 
limb when laid forward exceeds the tip of snout by one-third the length of 
the fourth toe. 
As regards coloration I may add, that there is occasionally a distinct 
yellowish band present, extending from the occiput along each side of the 
middle of the back, on the lower side margined blackish. The two yellow 
bands form an outward angle opposite each femur and then unite into one, a 
short distance beyond the base of the tail, and are accompanied on either 
side by a series of large blackish spots. Extremities spotted or indistinctly 
barred with brown and yellowish white. 
(To be continued.) 
