90 SCINCID^, 



Lygosoma mitanense, Annandale, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) i, 

 p. 144 (1905). 



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

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

 dactyle ; the hind limb reaches the elbow, the axilla, or the 

 shoulder. Snout obtuse ; lower eyelid scaly ; no supranasal ; 

 rostral perfectly flat or a little concave above, forming a broad 

 suture with the frontonasal, which forms a narrow suture with 

 the frontal ; latter as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together ; five supraoculars ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal ; nuchals absent, or one or two pairs ; fifth and 

 sixth labials below the eye. Ear-opening oval, rather large but 

 smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 38 to 42 

 smooth scales round the body, dorsals largest, laterals smallest. 

 A pair of large praeanals. Digits long, compressed ; subdigital 

 lamellce feebly unicarinate, 16 to 21 under the fourth toe. Brown 

 or olive-brown above, usually with two dorsal series of small dark 

 brown spots ; a dark brown lateral band, usually spotted with 

 whitish and edged below with white ; flanks white-spotted ; lower 

 parts white. 



From snout to vent 65 millim. ; tail 115. 



From the Eastern Himalayas and Northern Bengal to the 

 Malay Peninsula (Larufc Hills, Perak, 1000 ft. ; also found at 

 Kuala Lumpur and on the islands of the Pahang coast). 



91. Lygosoma aDomalopus. 



Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 84, pi. xi, fig. 4. 



Lycjosoma paradoxtitn , Werner, Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xlvi, 

 p. 13, pi. i, fig. 3 (1896). 



Distance between end of snout and fore limb nearly equal to 

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

 dactyle ; the hind limb nearly reaches the eye. Snout obtuse ; 

 lower eyelid scaly ; no supranasal ; rostral flat above, forming a 

 broad suture with the frontonasal ; prcef rentals forming a short 

 median suture ; frontal very narrow behind, as long as fronto- 

 parietals and ])arietals together ; four supraoculars ; parietals in 

 contact behind the interparietal ; no nuchals ; fifth and sixth or 

 sixth and seventh labials below tlie eye. Ear-opening oval, large 

 but smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 38 smooth 

 scales round the body, laterals smallest. A pair of large praeanals. 

 Fingers moderate, toes very unequal, the fourth halt as long as 

 the distance between axilla and groin, with 16 keeled subdigital 

 lamella). Brown above, with pale reddish-brown transverse bauds ; 

 a black loreal streak ; a series of white spots along each side ; 

 lower parts white. 



From snout to vent 70 millim. 



Penang and Sumatra. 



