216 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Habitat. — Southeastern Asia, from Siam to southern China, at 

 least as far as Hongkong, inchiding the islands of Hainan and 

 Formosa. 



From the latter it is known through the type specimen of Euprepes 

 ruhstrati, which was collected by Herr liuhstrat in the southern part 

 of the island, a specimen in the Basel Museum recorded by F. Mueller, 

 and a specimen in the British Museum, collected by Mr. La Touche at 

 Bangkimtsing. 



Genus SPHENOMORPH US « Fitzinger. 



1843. Sphcnomorphus FiTziNciEK, Syst. Kept., \). 23 (type, Lygosoma mrlannpngnn 



Dumeril and Bibron.) 

 1845. Hinnlia Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 74 (type, //. n.vvia=L. melanopogon). 

 1845. Otosauriis Gray, Gat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 93 (type, 0. cnmimin). 



Only one species of this genus has hitherto been loiuid in the ter- 

 ritory included in this work. 



SPHENOMORPHUS INDICUS^l^Gray). 



Plate XVII, figs. 1-2. 



1853. Ilinulia indica Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), XII, Dec, 1853, p. 388 

 (type-locality, Sikkim, Himalayas; types in Brit. Mus.; Sir J. Hooker, 

 collector).- — Lygosoma indicum Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 

 1887, p. 241, pi. XVI, figs. 1-lc (Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma); 

 Fauna Brit. India, Kept., 1890, p. 195; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, 

 p. 1G2 (Kuatun, prov. of Fokien). — Guenther, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. 

 Petersbourg, I, 189G, p. 203 (Sungpan, Lun-ngan-fu, prov. of Sze-Chuen, 

 China). 



1893. Lygosoma (Liolcpisvia) laterale var. reevcsi Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. 



Senckenberg., I, p. 104 (part: Dalanshan, near Ningpo) (not of Gray). 



1894. Lygosoma {Hinulia) indicum Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 



1894, p. 145 (Dalanshan). 



Description. — Young; British Museum No. 99. 4. 24. 101 ; Bangkimt- 

 sing, Formosa; J. D. La Touche, collector. Rostral large, broadly in 

 contact with f ronto-nasal, which is in contact with anterior loreal, pre- 

 fontals, and broadly with the frontal; no supranasals; frontal long, 

 tapering backward almost to a point, in contact with the anterior two 

 large supraoculars; four supraoculars; fronto-parietals and interparie- 

 tal distinct, the former in contact with second, third, and fourth supra- 

 oculars; parietals short, with a short suture behind interparietal; no 

 nuchals; nostril in a single nasal, no postnasal; anterior loreal high, 

 in contact with internasal; 7 supralabials, fifth and sixth largest; 



oFrom dcprfv, a wedge; i.iop<l»), shape. 



& Signifying from India. 



c Reproduced in this work on ])lale XVII, figs. 1-2. 



