88 SCINCIDJE. 



largest, those of the two median series more than twice as broad 

 as long. A pair of enlarged praeanals. Digits rather long, com- 

 pressed ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 22 to 25 under the fourth 

 toe. Bronze-colour above, spotted ail over with black and white, 

 the black spots preceding the white ones and more crowded on 

 the sides; lips spotted with black; the spots disposed in trans- 

 verse series on the tail ; lower parts bluish or greenish white. 



From snout to vent 80 millim. ; tail 93. 



Larut Hills, Perak, between 3500 and 4000 ft. altitude. 



87. Lygosoma prsesigne. 



Eouleng. Ann. & Ma<;-. Nat. Hist. (7) vi, p. 191 (1900) ; id. Fasc. 

 Malay., Zool. i, p. 1.59 (1903) ; id. Journ. Fed. Mai. St. Mus. iii, 

 p. 07 (1908). 



Distance between end of snout and fore limb Ig to 1| times in 

 distance between axilla and groin. Limbs well developed, penta- 

 dactyle ; the hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb. Snout obtusely pointed; lower eyelid scaly; no supra- 

 nasal ; rostral forming a straight suture with the frontonasal ; 

 prajf rontals usually forming a mediau suture : frontal very narrow 

 behind, at least as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together ; 5 supraoculars, fifth very small ; parietals forming a 

 A^ery short suture behind the interparietal ; 3 pairs of nuchals ; 

 tifth labial below centre of eye. Ear-opening oval, nearly as 

 large as eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 28 smooth scales 

 round the body, dorsals largest, those of the two mediau series 

 more than twice as broad as long. A pair of enlarged prseanals. 

 Digits rather long, compressed; subdigital lamellaj smooth, 20 

 under the fourth toe. Reddish brown above, marbled with darker 

 or with scattered black dots, grey on the sides, spotted with black 

 and white ; a series of large roundish black spots on each side of 

 the neck and anterior part of body ; lips spotted with black ; tail 

 black above and on the sides, with irregular annuli of whitish 

 scales or brown with blackish cross-bars ; lower parts white. 



From snout to vent 110 millim. ; tail (reproduced) 130. 



Fairly common on all the high hills of the Peninsula. 



88. Lygosoma scotophilum. 



Bouleiig. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii, p. .3.35 (1900). 

 Lygosoma Jloioeri, Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1001, i, p. .310. 



Distance between end of snout and fore limb not much less 

 than that between axilla and groin. Limbs well developed, 

 slender, pentadactyle ; the hind limb reaches the elbow, the 

 axilla, or the shoulder. Snout obtusely pointed ; lower eyelid 

 scaly ; no supranasal ; rostral forming a straight sutui-e with the 

 frontonasal ; praefrontals just meeting in the middle or narrowly 



