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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF T H E MALAY PENINSULA A N D SIAM. 645 75. MABUIA RUGIFERA (Stol.). Mabuia rugifera, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 184. Of this handsomely marked and remarkably scaled species, which has not previously been recorded from the Malay Peninsula, I obtained one specimen near the entrance of the Batu Caves, Selangor, in June 1898, and one in the jungle on Bukit Timah, Singapore, in Sept. 1898. In the latter the sides and underneath of the head and neck were a beautiful orange-red in life ; it measured 182 mm. in total length (snt. to vnt. 56, tail 126). Hab. Nicobars, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sipora (Mentawei Islands), Java, Borneo. 76. MABUIA MULTIFASCIATA (Kuhl). Euprepes rufescens, Cantor, p. 46. Mabuia multifasciata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 186; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 874. Siamese. " Ching-lane." Malay. " Menkarong " and " bengkarong." Localities. This is the common " Sun Lizard" or "Grass Lizard" of the Straits Settlements and is also very numerous in parts of Siam. I have met it in Kedah (Alor Star and Jen an), in Penang, in Province Wellesley (Butterworth), in Perak (Larut Hills, 3300 feet elevation), in Singapore, in Bangkok, in Ayuthia, and in the Dong Phya Fai (at Hinlap, 700 feet elevation). Habits. Food consists of insects, especially crickets and cockroaches. Description. (Drawn up from thirteen specimens from five different localities.) Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; a postnasal; anterior loreal not deeper than the second, usually in contact with the first labial, in one specimen but slightly so, and in one specimen not in contact with it; supranasals not in contact behind the rostral in eight specimens, in contact in two specimens (in three this point was not noted); frontonasal broader than long, frequently much broader; praefrontals in contact mesially ; frontal slightly shorter than the frontoparietals and interparietal together (in one specimen it is as long) ; frontal in contact with tbe second supraocular (in one specimen in contact with the first and second supraoculars); four supraoculars, second largest; normally six supraciliaries, first largest, but not unfrequently the fourth and fifth supraciliaries are fused into one shield, which is then the largest, or else the second and third may be welded together; frontoparietals distinct, in two specimens shorter, but usually larger, than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; a pair of nuchals ; four labials anterior to the subocular (except in a specimen from Ayuthia, which has on each side only three) ; subocular large and not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening roundish oval, about as large as a lateral scale, with a few (three, four, oj five) small white lobules anteriorly (except in a specimen from PROC. ZOOL, SOC-1899, No. XLII. 42 |