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Family SEPSiDiE, 



This family differs from the Scincid^e and AcONTlADJ: by the 

 nostrils being in the front edge of a small shield in a notch at 

 the hinder side of the rostral. 



Sphenocephalus, Blyth. 



Limbs rudimentary. Ears hidden. Eyes minute with a semi- 

 transparent lower lid. Anterior limbs fitting into a groove, 



S. tridactylus, Blyth. 



Body cylindrical elongate, flat beneath and angled at the abdo- 

 minal edge. Three toes on all feet. Scales smooth and lustrous 

 with an enlarged row under the tail. A large subquadrilateral 

 plate under the eye, and three small plates between it and the 

 nasal. A large lozenge-shaped plate in centre of chin, emargi- 

 nated, anteriorly to admit a small roundish nuchal plate. Tail 

 shorter than body. Colour very pale brown, deeper on the back. 



Length, body 4-00; tail 2-00 = 6-00 inches. 



Inhabits the sandy tracts in Synd and the Southern and 

 Western Punjab where it is called Rig Mahi 'sand fish.' 



S. pentadactylus, Bed. Mad., Mont. J. Med. Sc, 1870, No. 7, 

 p. 30. 



Fore legs minute and fitting into a groove. Hind legs well 

 formed. Toes five, on all feet. Nostril in a small shield, let in 

 to the hinder part of the rostral. A small post nasal followed 

 by tiuo (?) loreals (though the drawing shows three). The second 

 and third being both in contact with the first. Eye surrounded 

 by small scales. A single narrow prtefrontal. Postfrontal 

 hexagonal. Occipitals rounded behind, separated by a minute 

 shield which is let into the base of the vertical. Upper labials 

 8-9, the fourth and fifth under the eye. Colour uniform dark 

 brown. 



Inhabits the sandy banks of the Kuddle Pondy, a tidal stream 

 in Beypur, 



Type unique, in the Madras Museum. The head being injured, 

 the character of the lower eyelid could not be determined. 



