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Bronzy brown above, lighter on the limit of the blackish-brown 

 colour which covers the sides of the head and body ; sometimes a 

 blackish vertebral line ; limbs dark brown ; lower sufaces dark 

 brown or bronzy olive, the scales edged with darker. 



From snout to vent 2-25 inches. 



Unit. Travancore Hills and Wynaad, S. India. 



231. Lygosoma travancoricum. 



Mocoa travankorica, part., Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. 58. 

 Lygosoma travancoricnm, Bmdeny. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 261, pi. xviii, 



fag. 4. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between end of snout and fore 

 limb equals or slightly exceeds the distance between axilla and 

 groin in the young, and is contained If to 1-| times in the adult and 

 halfgrown. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided 

 transparent disk. Xostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; 

 frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with the rostral 

 and with the frontal ; latter shield as long as or shorter than 

 frontoparietal and interparietal together, in contact with the first 

 and second supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars, second largest ; 7 or 8 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, longer than the interparietal ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 3 or 4 pairs 

 of nuchals ; fifth, or rarely fourth, upper labial entering the orbit. 

 Ear-opening oval, much smaller than the eye-opening, without 

 projecting lobules or granules. 22 or 24 smooth scales round the 

 middle of the body, dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of 

 enlarged prseanals. The adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap 

 in the adult. Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 

 18 to 24 under the fourth toe. Tail If to If times length of 

 head and body. Bronzy brown or olive above, lighter on the 

 limit of the blackish-brown sides ; back uniform, or with scattered 

 blackish dots, or with a blackish vertebral line ; lower part of 

 sides black-spotted ; limbs dark brown ; lower surfaces dark grey 

 or olive. 



From snout to vent 2'4 inches. 



Hob. Hills of Southern India (Wynaad, Travancore, Palni, 

 Sivagiri Ghat). 



232. Lygosoma macrotympanum. 



Mocoa macrotympanum, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xlii, 1873, p. 166. 

 Lygosoma macrotympanum, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 265. 



Body moderately slender. Snout rather attenuated and prolonged. 

 Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Xostril pierced 

 in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal in contact with the 

 rostral, posteriorly just touching the frontal : 4 supraoculars ; 

 frontoparietal single ; interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a 

 suture behind the iuterparietal ; 4 pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper 



