Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



Of the two adult individuals the large measured : 



Length of the head, 0-f inch, 



Ditto ditto trunk, 3f- 



Ditto ditto tail, 4f 



Entire length : 8f inches. 



Sub-Gen. Lygosoma, Gray, apudDum. and Bibr. 



Nostrils pierced through the nasal shield ; no supranasals ; palate 



toothless, with a small triangular incision, situated far hack ; scales 



smooth. 



Lygosoma chalcides, (Linne.) 



Syn. — Scincus pedibus brevissimis, &c. Gronov. P. II, No. l.'i 

 Lacerta chalcides, Linne. 

 Angvis quadrupes, Linne, apud Hermann. 

 Le Chalcide, Daid>enton. 

 Der Vierfuss, Miiller. 

 Lezard vert a ecailles lisses, Vosmaer. 



f Hermann. 



I Gmelin. 

 Lacerta serpens, Bloch, apud < Leske. 



Donnd. 



LShaw. 

 Angvis quadrupede, Lacepede. 

 Chalcida serpens, Meyer. 

 Lacerta serpens, Donnd, apud Shaw. 

 Scincus braehypus, Schneid. apud Merrem. 

 Chalcides serpens, Latreille. 

 Seps pentadactj lus, Daudin. 



Seps (Angvis quadrupes, Lin.) Cuv., apud Griffith, A. K. 

 Mabouya serpens, Fitzinger ? 



Lygosoma serpens, Gray, apud j q^^' a . k. 



Lygosoma aurata, Gray, apud Griffith. A. K. 

 Tiliqua de Vosmaer, Cocteau. 

 Lygosoma brachypoda, Dumeril and Bibron. 

 Podophis chalcides, Gray : Catal. 



Blindworm-like ; limbs excessively small ; tail strong, conical, about 

 two-fifth of the entire length. A single large lozenge-shaped fronto- 

 parietal shield. Ear minute, circular. Lower eyelid scaly, with a few 

 larger scales. Preanal scales larger than the rest. 



Ground colour : iridescent lighter or darker copper, or bronze, in some 

 with indistinct dark brown zigzag lines, produced by the scales being 

 laterally edged or dotted with that colour. Beneath pale or whitish 

 yellow. The tail in some minutely dotted with brown. Iris black with 

 a minute golden ring. The supraorbital scales being somewhat trans- 

 parent, the black colour of the eye gives them a blackish appearance. 



