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longitudinal rows of scales, those on the vent being decidedly more trans- 
versely elongated, than in the Himalayan form ; further in the more elongated 
5th upper labial, few enlarged shields behind the occipitals, and by the 
subcaudals being enlarged almost from the beginning. There is also a slight 
difference in coloration. 
Sab. Parisnath hill in West Bengal. The only specimen was obtained 
near one of the Jain shrines on the top of the hill. 
Ristella, Gray. 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. X, 1839, p. 333. 
Cat. Lizards B. M., 1845, pp. 71 and 85. 
Body and tail elongate, subcylindrical ; limbs four, feeble, anterior with 
4, posterior with 5 toes, thumb and inner toe shortest ; all toes •provided with 
retractile claics, lying between two terminal enlarged shields ; head shields 
regular; nostril in a single lateral shield; supranasals none; lower eyelid 
scaly ; ear opening small ; scales of body keeled or nearly smooth ; gape 
situated far backward ; palate toothless ; teeth of the jaws small, equal, 
numerous, compressed. 
T his generic character has been derived from a specimen, kindly sent to 
me by Major Beddome ; it belongs, I believe, to a genus which was originally 
established by Gray for a North Indian specimen, Ristella Rurkii (1. cit. p. 
86), but the species appears to be different ; at least it is impossible to 
identify both from the short description given of R. Rurkii, and it is not 
noted in Gunther’s Reptiles of India. 
The 4 anterior toes and the retractile claws are important distinctions 
of the genus which must be classed next to Seteropus. 
Ristella Tbavancoeica* Beddome. 
Ateuchosawms Trow anconeus, Beddome, Madras Jo urn. Med. Sc., 1870, p. 33. 
PI iv, fig. 5, Tipper view of the animal, natural size ; 5a, 56, 6c, upper, side and 
lower views of the head, enlarged; 5d, inner view of hand with the claws retracted, 
5e, sole with the claws drawn out. 
Body very elongate, subeylindrical, but somewhat depressed ; muzzle short, 
obtuse, tail considerably longer than the body and very gradually tapering. 
Rostral convex in front, reaching to the upper surface of the head ; one large 
prefrontal, two small posterior frontals, widely separated ; the vertical forms a 
broad suture with anti-frontal and is posteriorly much elongate ; four or five 
supraciliaries, slightly elevated, the first shield largest, but it is sometimes 
divided in two, last shield smallest ; five occipitals, the two anterior and the 
median one subequal, the posterior pair larger, and the adjoining scales are 
* R. malabaricus, (olim), Proo. A. S. B., 1871, p. 195.— Since my description of 
this species was drawn up, I observe that Major Beddome redescribed the species, in 
Mad Med. Journal for 1871, also under the name Ristella, which name I had pointed 
out to him. 
