F. Stoliczlca — On Indian Lizards. 
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scattered dark spots ; limbs above almost uniform brown ; sides towards 
the back with a dark brown or blackish band, separated from the back by an 
indistinct, partially interrupted, narrow, white band ; on the lower half of 
the sides the colour gradually passes into dull brown, more or less spotted or 
marbled with paler, which markings are generally also traceable in the 
dark band ; sides of tail greyish brown with an upper dark edge, and marked 
with darker and paler small spots, or indistinct stripes. Below, uniform green- 
ish iridescent white ; limbs and tail of a pale fleshy brown colour during life. 
This is a much larger species than any of the two following, but it is by 
no means common in Sikkim. I found it from the base of the valleys up 
to about 6,000 feet, and also received it from the Bhutan hills. It very 
likely extends eastwards into Asam. 
The young specimen referred to by Dr. Anderson (1. cit.) under the 
head of Mu. indicus belongs to the next species ; and judging from the 
description of the coloration in Gunther’s I. K. (1. cit.), it appears probable, 
that specimens of the next species were also referred to this one as young. 
There can, however, be no mistake about the distinctness of the two. H- in- 
dica, as compared with H. maculata, is a much stouter and larger form, with 
comparatively larger scales, arranged in a smaller number of transverse rows 
between fore and hind limb ; the former has 10 rows of scales on the back 
between the dark bands, the latter only 8 ; in indica the rostral, anterior 
frontal, and the supraorbitals are slightly convex, the interspace between the 
latter moderately wide, the preanal shields comparatively small ; the palm 
and sole entirely covered with spinous tubercles, with some larger ones on the 
posterior edge of the sole. In H. maculata on the contrary the rostral reach- 
es far backwards, is flat or almost concave above, the anterior frontal is also 
flat, the supraorbitals tumid with a very narrow space between them, and 
the palm and sole are only partially tubercular. There is also a difference in 
coloration ; the lateral band at the side in indica is never very distinct, and 
is not margined below by a white line, which is always well marked in ma- 
culata. 
In six specimens examined the length of the body varies between 3 and 
3.75 inches, the tail being, when in its natural growth, about twice that length, 
but often it is reproduced and then about equal in length to the body. 
Hinulia maculata, Blytli. 
PI. iv, fig. 2, 2a, side and upper views of the head, natural size, 2h, sole of hind 
limb, twice the natural size. 
Comp. Stoliczka, in Journ. Asiat. Sc. B., xxxix. 1870, p. 174. 
The 5th and part of the 6th labial are below the orbit, both are nearly 
equal in size ; the median pair of the enlarged preanals is sometimes (though 
