190 SPOLIA ZEYLANTCA. 



AG AM I D^. 



Calotes OPHIOMACHUS, Merr. 



Judging from ;i young specimen from Kandy in the collection 

 and from an adult lately captured by myself in Colombo, the 

 "two groups oi" spines on each side of the head" noted bj" 

 Boulenger may be united into a single series. 



SCINCIDyE. 



Mabuia BIBRONII (Gray). 



Though Boulenger only records this species from the Carnatic 

 in the *' Fauna," it is probably not uncommon in some parts of 

 Ceylon, whence there are several specimens in the Colombo 

 Museum which I have re-examined (see Haly's Report on 

 Reptilia, &c., Colombo, 1891, p. 14, where the species is recorded 

 from Mullaittivu). 



LYGOSOMA MEGALOPS, sp. nov. 



Sub-genus Keneuxia, Gray (see G. A. Boulenger, Catalogue of 

 the Lizards in the British Museum, Second Edition, vol. III., 

 1887, pp. 210 and 214). 



Habit lacertiform ; length from snout to fore-limb contained 

 about 1^ times in the length from axilla to groin ; limbs well 

 developed, pentadactyle, overlapping when adpressed ; snout 

 short, obtusely pointed ; eye large ; diameter of orbit as great as 

 length of snout ; distance from orbit to ear-opening much longer 

 than snout ; ear-opening much smaller than eye, circular, 

 without denticulations. 



Rostral much broader than deep, forming a straight suture 

 with the frontonasal ; no supranasals ; nasal undivided. Frontal 

 nearly as long as the frontoparietals and the interparietal 

 together ; interparietal completely separating the parietals ; no 

 distinct nuchals. Four large, subequal supraoculars ; seven or 

 eight superciliaries ; six upper and five lower labials. Dorsals 

 and laterals smooth, ventrals feebly keeled ; body scales subequal, 

 imbricate, in twenty-four to twenty-six rows round the body ; 

 anals and caudals not enlarged ; no enlarged scale on the heel ; 

 middle toe with twelve to fourteen subdigital plates. Colour 

 almost uniform dark brown. Length of head and body, 2 

 inches ; length of tail, 2| inches. 



Localities. — One specimen from Puttalam ; another from 

 Kitulgala. 



