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SINGAPORE BIODIVERSITY RECORDS 2020 Special Issue (1): 7 pages ISSN 2345-7597

Date of publication: 30 December 2020.

© National University of Singapore

Some notes on the species of Ophidia and Lacertilia obtained at Sime Road

Internment Camp, Singapore, during May and June 1944

Alexander Cross

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on6;- i tucinir lstre&k . f deeir rose pink. ^r Tl ie u;o._er sur, i .a.c e cf- i i re tai f i6 L i3 lr t ,earLlty brov:m vlii. 6, 1jink flusji tiiarj,s t.i.e tip, and irre""far.fyspecliled wlii: black. - Tile LeJe a_::e ,;i::l:isi:., '-ti]ed vriin"blaetr. Tiie

1fi".?f iire _eye is yel1ovr, gr,ar:ulaied 'r iiir bLack, r*rif e tire-fu.oil isrou-rid. rn ferri'r-es ti-,e yellcu ca t:.e s i.,l-es a.d Lelly, ancl ti"e recr.gtreaL -i.r etueen the l-iubs al:e verXr jtaLe cr aosent.

nutab er. of s1:eci.,::eils vrere ialer: at Citarigl but E6vera]- of tireseliacl- fost tiieir' Ler11s vririch are "t,i""r"iy

brittfe aird are cast on t,.€least provccatii:r. At Sime noae fcl-ireu I iliratur. e €x ovum ilave L,eenl :1,::::u;..^T::I -.nou?re ro be no c-iff e::errce in the i i ,easur:edenrsr./ y rrwcet-i L,]e s€xes. and, tjie dvera$e iieaeliret:ients of geven apeciiilenst+4 , 2*1 are : t . .& r . r42 .o . .+ iJ -_" ; ; : ; , * . i , ta i r , 42 . t _ 5z .B _ 6500a ' . ; To ta l , 9 t , 1 - 1o2 .6 - r t [ 5 - - _ r : 1 - , J r . l t o f ; no r . t t o uen t re o r

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