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ness. Young specimens generally have a distinct greenish metallic tinge 
on the whole hody. 
Largest specimen measures 5.25 inches, of which the body is 2", or a 
little less ; some specimens have a stouter tail than others. 
Hab. Sikkim, at elevations of from 3,000 to 10,000 feet ; generally 
found between large stones in places exposed to the sun. 
Jerdon* says that Gunther’s Bumeces Himalayanusf is identical with 
Sikkimensis, which latter Gunther quoted as doubtfully belonging to Hinulia 
indica.% Dr. Anderson (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 158) also says, that the Sik- 
kim form “ agrees in its transparent eyelid and all its other details with G iin- 
ther’s Bum. himalayanus he has, however, I believe, never seen an example of 
the true Mocoa Himalayana of Gunther. I have specimens of the latter from 
Simla and the hills to the West, and I find that although they closely resemble 
Sikkimensis, they are nearly as well distinguishable, as are Sin. indica and 
maculata. Among five specimens of Himalayana only one has 2b longitudi- 
nal rows of scales, the four other specimens have each 28 longitudinal rows ; 
there are 48 to 50 transverse rows between fore and hind-limb, but only 42 to 
44 scales in a row along the edge of the belly. On the back there aie, as in 
Sikkimensis, only 4 longitudinal rows, but at the sides and below the st ales 
of Himalayana are decidedly smaller. Other differences are : the limbs, 
though not longer than in Sikkimensis, are in Himalayana somewhat more 
slender, the transparent disk on the eyelid is larger, the ear-opening is also 
larger and with much more distinct lobules in front, the posterior frontals 
are more developed, almost meeting the anterior frontal and the vertical in 
a point, as stated by Dr. Gunther, while in Sikkimensis the two posterior 
frontals always remain well separated. 
The colour of Himalayana is, as described by Gunther, above, greenish 
olive (not bronze brown, or only tinged with olive, as in Sikkimensis'), with a 
few interrupted series of dark and whitish dots ; a blackish band commences at 
the nasal and continues through the eye along the upper side of the body to 
near the tip of the tail, it is either uniform or with a few white spots, and on 
the tail it becomes generally less distinct. At the edge of the back the black 
band is margined by a white line, (most distinct on the neck), and below by a 
much broader white band, commencing at the lower edge of the orbit and ter- 
minating at the hind limb. Below this white band the sides are mottled or 
speckled with dark. The lower surface is uniform greenish white ; tail reddish * 
below (seasonal). All this strongly contrasts with specimens of Sikkimensis 
of which I collected a very large number of specimens in Sikkim. I do not 
wish to say that the two forms may not be shown to represent mere varieties of 
* Proc. Asiat. Soo. for February ]870, p. 73. 
f lieptilee of India, p. 86. J Ibidem, p. 89. 
