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have no dark spots on the back, but numerous white spots at the side of the 
belly. The stripes at the side of the tail are in Central Indian specimens, 
and in those from W. Bengal, and also from northwards near Hardwar, very 
thin and often rather indistinct. Young specimens have 5, old ones 7 keels on 
each scale. Sikkim specimens from the Rungnu valley, (one of which attains the 
large size of 6# inches, of which tail is 3f, and has 30 longitudinal and about 
28 transverse rows of scales between the fore and hind-limb), generally have 
two or four rows of brown spots along the back, the spots becoming some- 
what irregular and more prolonged on the posterior body ; sides with 
blackish and more or less numerous white spots, the black spots inclining to 
form longitudinal series ; sides of the tail very distinctly streaked with brown 
and white, but when the terminal half, or third, of the tail is renewed, it is 
uniform. In Sikkim I only saw the species in the lower valleys, up to about 
3,000 feet, but generally at lower elevations, and by no means common. 
Asamese specimens do not differ in any particular from the Sikkim ones, and 
similarly coloured varieties were also collected by Dr. Day at Rurlri, only 
the specimens are smaller, and the white spots at the side of the body fewer, 
and somewhat indistinct. 
The species also occurs in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, where I 
obtained three specimens during the last winter (1860 to 1871). Each of these 
has on the back two distant, almost continuous rows of brownish black spots, 
and the brown colour between these rows is darker than that between them 
and the respective edges of the back. On the hind part of the body, the spots 
become broken up and finally disappear. The sides are either distinctly 
spotted, with white as in Darjiling specimens, or they are more uniform 
dusky ; the tail is on the anterior half always longitudinally streaked with 
brown, intermixed with white. The lower side is uniform whitish, with the 
edge between each two scales slightly darker, forming the longitudinal “ obscure 
dark striae,” to which Jerdon alluded in his note J. A. S. B. xxii, p. 479. 
Some of the specimens obtained at Pankabari, on the northern edge of the 
Sikim Terrai, agree in coloration with those from Calcutta, having the middle 
back darker brown than the sides of it, while others again have as many as 
eight longitudinal, more or less continuous, black bands along the back. 
Pegu specimens do not differ from those from Asam and Darjiling, 
and I suspect that Theobald’s Burmese species, identified by him with 
Kuhl’s E. multicarinatus from the Philippines, is the same as Blyth’s 
macwlarius, but the two are by no means identical, as suggested by Theo- 
bald, (Joum. Linn. Soe. Zool. x, p. 26). In comparing specimens from 
various localities, it struck me that the hill forms generally have stouter 
legs and shorter toes than specimens found in low country. 
E. macularim appears, at least partially, to replace E. carinatus in Cen- 
tral India, but not apparently in South India ; it is, however, in all the locali- 
