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length and slender. The fore-limb, when laid forward, nearly or fully reaches 
the opening of the ear, and is only a little shorter than the distance between 
the snout and the ear ; the hind limb is less than half the distance 
between the axil and loin, and it barely exceeds the distance between the 
fore limb and the anterior angle of the eye. 
Colour, above, olive brown, with an iridescent blue tinge, purer brownish 
on the tail, pale brownish olive at the side of the body ; each scale, above 
and at the sides, is indistinctly mottled with dark, and there are generally 
a few white spots on the side of the neck and about the shoulder ; a narrow 
white, slightly black margined band rises from behind the orbit and continues 
on each side of the back ; it becomes indistinct in the middle of the body, 
but is again slightly more conspicuous above the hip, gradually disappearing 
on the tail, which is indistinctly speckled with dark brown at the sides ; 
limbs above with longitudinal, broken up, dark lines ; chin and anterior neck 
below yellowish, vent whitish ; tail below brownish white. 
This description is drawn up from a specimen which was presented to 
the Indian Museum by Mr. W. Theobald, and is not unlikely the same which 
he in his Catalogue of Burmese Reptiles noticed under the name of R. Bow- 
rvngi. The greater length of the limbs and the coloration readily distinguish 
this from the preceding species. 
Sab. Pegu ; British Barma. 
ElOPA ALBOPUJTCTATA, (I. R., p. 92). 
PI. v, fig. 6, 6a, upper and side views of head, enlarged. 
Riopa Haedwickii, (I. R., p. 92). 
PI. v, fig. 5, 5a, same views as in figure 6. 
Riopa puacxata, (I. R. p. 93). 
The differences in structure between these three species are very few. 
In the first and third the vertical and the median occipital shield are 
comparatively narrower and longer, than in the second. 
In R. albopunctata the scales of the body are slightly smaller and more 
quadrangular, the number of longitudinal rows varies between 2G and 28, (the 
two numbers being almost equally common, at least in Bengal specimens), the 
transverse rows between fore and hind limb vary between 50-60, 56 being the 
most usual number, as stated by Gunther. The fore leg reaches, when laid for- 
ward, to the froht edge of the ear, or a little beyond it, rarely to the angle of the 
mouth ; the length of the hind leg is generally a little less than fth of the 
body, rarely exactly Jth. 
In It. Hardwickii all the scales are somewhat larger and more trans- 
versely elongate, the number of longitudinal rows varies between 24 
and 26, both being almost equally common ; the transverse rows between 
lore and hind limbs vary between 48 and 56, 53 being the most usual 
