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Show 158 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, EUMECES TRIVITTATUS, Gray, would seem to be more nearly allied to E. macularius than to E. rufescens. It has five keels, and thirty-six longitudinal rows of scales round the body, and forty-five to forty-nine transverse rows between the axils. The nasals form a suture in front of the praefrontal, and the postfrontals a broad suture in front of the vertical. The white vertebral aud lateral bands are margined with darker brown than the intervening brown space, and the shields of the head are partially margined with dark brown. The fore limb when laid forward reaches to the angle of the mouth, and the posterior limo about halfway between the two axils. Hab. Salnat, Madras. EUMECES SIKIMENSIS, Blyth. Mocoa sikimensis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxii. p. 652. Eumeces himalayanus, Gthr. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 86. 1 Eumeces indicus (Gray), Gthr. /. c. p. 89. This species agrees in its transparent eyelid and all its other details with Giinther's E. himalayanus. I have lately received two specimens from Darjeeling, from an elevation of 4500 feet. EUMECES INDICUS, Gray ; Gthr. 1. c. p. 89. Three specimens have from thirty-six to forty longitudinal rows of scales round the body, with about fifty transverse series between the axil and groin. Length. Tail. in. 75 7'8 °8 in. 34 H 2| The back of the young specimen is olive-brown, with two longitudinal series of black spots from before the shoulder to beyond the tail. The broad lateral band is well defined and covered with white spots, and has an ill-defined white line below it, extending from the angle of the mouth to the groin ; the sides of the throat and the belly below it are marbled with fine black spots. Upper surface of the limbs finely spotted with black. Hab. Darjeeling, Geelsaugor, and Assam. EUMECES ALBOPUNCTATUS, Gray. This specimen unfortunately wants the tail ; the body measures 2" 4'". The back has four lines of small dots along its middle ; and the blackish brown of the sides is spotted with white. Length of hind limb 6'". The largest specimen in this museum measures 5" 4'", of which the tail forms 3" 9'". There are thirteen, and all have four dorsal lines of small dots. Blyth's specimens, said to have come from |
