LTGOSOMA. 201 



Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 16 to 18 under 

 fourth toe. Tail If to If times the length of head and body. 

 Bronzy olive or brown above, with small dark, and sometimes also 

 light spots ; a blackish vertebral streak sometimes present : a 

 broad blackish-brown lateral band, usually edged above and below 

 by a light streak ; lower surface greenish white or plumbeous. 



From snout to vent 2'5 inches ; tail 3"5. 



Hnh. Western Himalayas (Garbwal, Simla), Kashmir (Ladak?). 



226. Lygosoma doriae. 

 Lygosoma dorife, Bonlenr/. Ann. Mux. Genova, (2) iv, 1887, p. 020. 



Habit lacertiform ; distance between end of snout and fore limb 

 contained 1^ or 1^ times in distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal 

 twice as broad as long, forming a suture with the rostral, and in 

 contact with the anterior angle of the frontal (in one specimen the 

 pi'aefrontals form a median sutiu'o) : frontal a little shorter than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the U\o 

 anterior supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars ; 8 supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in size; parietals 

 forming a suture behind the intei-parietal ; 3 or 4 pairs of nuchals ; 

 fifth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, smaller 

 than the eye-opening, but considerably larger than the transparent 

 palpebral disk ; no auricular lobules. 20 or 28 scales round the 

 middle of the body, smooth, laterals smallest. A pair of enlarged 

 prseanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist of the adpressed fore 

 limb. Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellte smooth, 16 to 18 

 under the fourth toe. Tail If to 1| times as long as head and body. 

 Bronzy olive above, with small black spots ; sides and limbs 

 closely s])otted with black, with small whitish dots; young with a 

 light dorso-lateral line. 



From snout to vent 2 inches ; tail 8'2. 



Hah. ITpper Bui'ma (Bhamo and Kakhyen Hills). 



227. Lygosoma ladacense. 



Eumeees ladacensis, Giinth. Rept. B. I. p. 88, pi. x, fig. I. 

 Euprepres stoliczkai and kargilensis, Steind. Nomra, Rept. pp. 45,40. 

 Mocoa ladakensis, ^V. stoliczkse, and M. kargilensis, Theob. Cat. 



pp. viii, 59, 00. 

 Lygosoma ladaceuse, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 258, pi. xvii, fig. 3. 



Habit lacertiform ; distance between end of snout and fore limb 

 contained 14 to If times in distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal 

 broader thau long, forming a suture with the rostral, and usually 

 also with the frontal ; latter shield as long as or a little longer 

 thau frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 three anterior supraoculars ; 4 supraoculai\s, second and third 



