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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 159 Mergui, are not separated under this locality ; and it is impossible say whether they were of this species. Hab. Debrooghur, Assam. RIOPA ANGUINA, Theobald, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. x. p. 27. Lower eyelid transparent. The body very much elongated and slender; limbs small and feeble. The distance between the axil and snout is contained two and a half times in the length between the fore and hind limbs. Tail little more than the distance between the vent and fore limbs. The fore limb when laid forwards falls considerably short of the ear, and equals the distance from the ear to halfway between the eye and the tip of the snout. The hind limb is the distance between the axil and the ear, and is in excess of the distance between the ear and the snout. Snout moderately short and pointed ; supranasals forming a broad suture behind the rostral; the frontal and vertical suture widely separating the first frontals. Vertical moderately elongated, lateral margins convergent to a point behind. Two pairs of occipitals. Four large superciliaries with two small scale-like shields behind the last. Seven upper labials. A large broad shield behind the mental, with two large shields behind the former, forming a long suture with each other and succeeded by a small triangular shield with a large one on either side of it. Ear without denticulations. Twenty-two series of smooth scales round the middle of the body; tbe scales are rather broad, and rounded behind; sixty-five rows of scales between the fore and hind limbs. Uniform olive-brown above, with or without a line of black spots along the side of the back, margined above by a pale narrow band, sometimes obscurely spotted with white on the side behind the ear and above and behind the shoulder. Upper surface of the tail yellowish brown ; under surface yellowish. Prome, Upper Burmah. Dr. Stoliczka* has recently described another species of this genus, R. lineolata, with a scaly eyelid and twenty-eight series of scales round the body. GECKO SMITHII, Gray; Gthr. I. c. p. 103. Granular above, the granules flat and arranged somewhat in transverse rows on the body and tail; many large circular flattened tubercles with a small central prominence interspersed among the o-ranules, smaller on the occiput and temporal region, and large on the body, and arranged in transverse rows on the tail at regular intervals.' Sixteen low upper labials, and twelve deep lower ones ; two large shiekls behind the mental with an azygos one behind them, with two small ones on either side of it ; a line of four large shields between the second, third, and fourth lower labials, with about five parallel shields below the remaining labials. The granules on the occiput and between the eyes small, those on the eyelid large and * Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, vol. xxxix. p. 175. |