94 SCINCIDiE. 



Snout obtuse ; lower eyelid scaly ; supranasals present, in contact 

 behind the rostral ; frontonasal forming a broad suture with the 

 frontal ; prsefrontals small ; frontal broader than supraocular 

 region, slightly longer than frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together ; four supraoculars ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal ; fourth or fourth and fifth labials below the eye. 

 Ear-opening rather small, oval, with three pointed lobules in front. 

 38 or 40 smooth scales round the body. No enlarged praeanals. 

 Digits short, compressed ; fourth toe a little longer than third, 

 with 16 obtusely keeled lamellae inferioidy. Pale brown above, 

 head dark brown above, with a yellow band across the occipital 

 region ; sides of head yellow, with a dark brown spot below the 

 eye ; lower parts yellowish ; tail olive. 



From snout to vent 120 millim. 



Borneo and Sumatra. Discovered in the Larut Hills, Perak, 

 by Mr. A. L. Butler. 



98. Lygosoma vittigerum. 



Bouleno-. Aun. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) xiv, p. 615 (1894) ; id. Journ. 

 F. M. S. Mus. iii, p. 67 (1908). 



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 nearly the axilla. 

 Snout acutely pointed ; lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk ; no supranasal ; nostril forming a straight suture with the 

 frontonasal ; prsefrontals just meeting or forming a median suture; 

 frontal very narrow behind, as long as or a little shorter than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together ; four supraoculars ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind th9 interparietal; 3 or 4 pairs 

 of nuchals ; lifth labial below the eye. Ear-opening small, 

 roundish; no auricular lobules. 28 smooth scales round the body, 

 those of the two vertebral series much larger than the others, 

 laterals very small. A pair of enlarged prseanals. Digits slender ; 

 subdigital lamellae smooth, 25 under the fourth toe. A greenish- 

 white vertebral stripe, extending to the end of the snout, bordered 

 on each side by a rather broad black stripe ; sides pale olive, with 

 or without black dots ; lower parts greenish white. 



From snout to vent 40 millim. ; tail 55. 



Originally described from Sereinu, Mentawei Islands, this 

 species has since been rediscovered in Sarawak and in the Malay 

 Peninsula at Kuala Teku, Pahang, 500 ft., and also at Ginting 

 Bidai, 2300 ft. 



99. Lygosoma atrocostatum. 



Scinciis afrocostatus, Lesson, Vov. ' Coquille,' Zcol. ii, p. 50, pi. iv, 



tig. 3 (1830). 

 Maboui/n Jerdoiiiatui, Stoliczka, Journ. xisiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 172 



(1870). 



