LYOOSOMA. 



197 



The hind limb reaches the elbow or the axilla. Digits long, 

 compressed; subdigital lamellso feebly unicarinate, 16 to 21 under 

 the fourth toe. Tail almost twice as long as head and body. Brown 

 or olive-brown above, usually with two dorsal series of small dark 

 brown spots ; a dark brown lateral band, usually spotted with 

 whitish and edged below with white, extends from the nostril to 

 the tail, passing through the eye and above the ear ; flanks white- 

 spotted ; lower surface white. 



From snout to vent 2-5 inches ; tail 4-5. 



Hob. Eastern Himalayas (Sikhim), Northern Bengal, Assam, 

 Burma to Mergui, Andaman Islands. 



220. Lygosoma dussumieri. 



Lygosoma dussumierii,_DM?. $ Bibi: Erp. Gen. v, p. 725 ; Bouleng. 



Cat. Liz. iii, p. 243. 

 ITinulia dussumierii, Theob. Cat. p. 55. 



Habit lacertiform ; distance between end of snout and fore 

 limb contained 1 to lj times in distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse ; loreal region concave. Lo wer eyelid scaly. 

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal ; rostral flat or a 

 little concave above, largely in contact with the frontonasal, which 

 is broader than long and sometimes in contact with the frontal ; 

 prsefrontals sometimes forming a median suture ; frontal as long 

 as frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the 

 three (or two) anterior supraoculars ; 5 large supraoculars, first 

 two sometimes fused into a single shield, first much longer than 

 second ; a very small posterior supraocular ; 11 to 13 supraciliaries, 

 first and last largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 

 subequal in length ; parietals forming a short suture behind the 

 interparietal; no nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials largest 

 and below the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-open- 

 ing ; no auricular lobules. 40 smooth scales round the middle of 

 the body, laterals smallest. A pair of large prseanals. The hind 

 limb reaches the shoulder or the ear. Digits long, compressed ; 

 subdigital lamella? unicarinate, 22 or 23 under the fourth toe. 

 Tail almost twice as long as head and body. Pale olive above 

 with small light spots or a series of dark brown spots along each 

 side of the back ; a broad dark brown lateral band, involving the 

 upper half of the ear, edged above and below with a light streak ; 

 tail reddish ; lower surface of head and body greenish white. 



From snout to vent 2'3 inches ; tail 4'3. 



Ifab. Malabar. 



221. Lygosoma olivaceum. 



Dasia olivacea, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 331. 

 Euprepes ernestii, Dum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gen. \, p. 69C ; Cantor, J. A. 

 S. B. xvi, 1847, p. 653. 



