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rarely) united into one largo shield. The hand has no tubercles on the 
extreme inner edge, and the sole is only partially tubercular, being generally 
smooth all along the bases of the 3rd and 4th toes ; there are 17 -22 sharp 
tubercles on the 4th free toe. 
I have examined specimens from the Andamans,* Moulmein, various 
parts of Pegu, Asam, Sikkim and from the Parisnath hill in W. Bengal. The 
Moulmein specimens are the largest, attaining 7 inches ; next come those 
from Asam and the base of the Sikkim hills, just above the Terrai at 
Pankabari ; specimens collected at greater elevations, as for instance those 
about Darjiling (7-8000 feet) very rarely appear to attain 6 inches in length, 
and on the Parisnath I did not get (in April) a single specimen above 3 
inches. All from the latter locality are, above, distinctly bronze brown, while 
those from the Himalayas are generally somewhat olivaceous or, when young, 
with greenish metallic lustre ; they also often have the back much spotted 
with blackish, and the sutures between the head shields are more or less 
black, but in every point of structure the two forms are identical. 
In all the specimens, I saw, the fore foot when laid forward, reached 
beyond the eye, but never to the front of the rostral. The fifth or last 
supraeiliary is the smallest, but rarely united with the fourth, which is then 
followed by one or two small shields. The number of transverse rows of 
scales on the side of the body between fore and hind limb varies from 80 to 95, 
but the number of scales in one row at the edge of the belly is only about 60, 
Huotlia Dussttmieeii, Dum. and Bib. 
PI. iv, fig. 3, 3a, Bide and upper views of.tlio head ; 3i>, sole of left hind limb. 
Lygosoma Dussumierii, D. and B., Erpet. Gen., v, p. 725. 
Eumeces Dussmnieri, apud Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. So. for 1870. 
I am indebted for a specimen of this very rare speciesf to Major Beddome, 
who obtained it in Malabar, where also the original specimens have been 
procured by Mr. Dussumior. As the species is rare, a slightly verbal altera- 
tion of Major Beddome’s description may not be out of place. 
Head conical, depressed above ; body high, roundly subquadrangular ; 
tail much longer than the body, gradually tapering to a point. The fore 
leg, when laid forward reaches to the tip of the snout, and the hind leg ex- 
* One of the two specimens, noted by Theobald in Cat. Kept. Asiat. Soc. Museum, 
18G8, p. 25 (letter 6.) as coming from the Andamans is an Ewprepes which, if not 
’ identical with Steindachner’s E. macro tin, from the Nicobars, belongs to a now species. 
Scales in 30 longitudinal series, each sharply three-keeled; supranasals not quite in 
oontact, frontal forms a broad suture with vertical, occipitals as usually distributed ; 
lower eyelid scaly, but the scales are rather larger in the middle j greenish olive above ; 
ear large with scarcely any projecting denticles in front ; sides blackish, below white. 
f In the specimen described by Major Beddome the fii’st and second supra- 
orbitals appear to have been united. 
