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Fam. SCINCIDAE. 



16. Mabuia macularia (Blyth). 



A very common skink all over the plains of India, Burma and 

 Ceylon. Two specimens were taken at Sadiya in November, 

 " under chips of wood." 



17. Lygosoma indicum (Gray). 



Lygosoma indicum and L. zehratum, Boulenger, Fauna, p. 195. 

 Lygosoma indicum, id., Ann. Mus. Genova (2nd ser.), xiii, p. 319. 



A very common species in the foot-hills of the E. Himalayas 

 and also in hilly coimtry in Assam and Burma. 



Specimens were taken under stones in the neighbourhood of 

 Rotung and Upper Rotung (1,300 to 2,000 ft.) in December, Janu- 

 ary and March. 



18. Lygosoma courcyanum, sp. nov, 

 (Plate V, fig. 5.) 



vSubgenus Hinulia. Allied to L. (Hinulia) cacharense^ from 

 Assam but much more slender and with shorter limbs. 



Habit slender, lacertiform; the distance between the axilla 

 and the groin nearly twice that between the tip of the snout and 

 the fore limb. Tail nearly twice as long as head and body. Total 

 length 100 mm. 



//c«<^ small, narrow, triangular; snout pointed ; loreal region 

 vertical ; lower eye-lid scaly ; ear-opening subcircular, much smaller 

 than eye, without lobules; nostril pierced in a single nasal. 

 Rostral much broader than deep, forming an extensive suture with 

 fronto nasal; fronto-nasal undivided, much longer than praefron- 

 tals; no supranasals ; praefrontals separate , short ; frontal shorter 

 than its distance from tip of snout, a little shorter than the parie- 

 tals; its greatest breadth to its length as 7 to 9; parietals not 

 meeting behind interparietal, forming a length}^ suture; inter- 

 parietal small; a single pair of enlarged nuchals; 4 large, subequal 

 supraoculars; 7 upper labials, 4th, 5th and 6th under eye. 



Scales of body smooth, imbricate, in 24 rows; the ventrals 

 slightl}^ larger than the dorsals; two large praeanals. 



Limbs short but well-formed, separated by a considerable dis- 

 tance where adpressed. Toes not compressed, of moderate length ; 

 II smooth lamellae under 4th toe. 



Colouration. — Dorsal surface olive-brown minutely speckled 

 with black ; tail rather darker than back ; a narrow pale band ex- 

 tending on each side from above the eye to the base of the tail ; 

 a rather broader black band running immediately below it; sides 

 yellowish speckled with black ; lateral surface of tail suffused with 

 slate grey; ventral surface yellowish, speckled with slate-grey on 

 tail. 



1 Anuandale, J.A.S.B , 1905, p. 145. 



