LYGOSOMA. 205 



labial under the orbit. Ear-opening very large, rounded, with a 

 perfectly smooth edge all round. '22 smooth scales round the 

 middle of the body, dorsals slightly larger than laterals. A pair of 

 moderately enlarged prseanals. Limbs proportionately developed, 

 with the toes very slender. Head above brown, paler on the snout ; 

 3 longitudinal white bands along the body, separated by 2 some- 

 what broader brown bands ; the median dorsal white band becomes 

 obsolete at the root of the tail : labials and sides of head brownish, 

 spotted with white ; limbs above with very close longitudinal 

 brown lines, digits powdered with pure white ; lower portion of 

 the sides and lower surfaces livid carneous, tinged with bright 

 orange on the lower belly and on the tail. 



Total length 4 inches, of which the tail measures nearly 2'5. 



Hab. South Andaman. A single specimen, which I have not 

 seen, was obtained on a sandy beach in Macpherson's Straits. 



233. Lygosoma macrotis. 



Euprepes inacrotis, Steind. Novara, Kept, p. 48. 



Mocoa macrotis, Theob. Cat, p. 60. 



Lygosoma macrotis, Boideng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 265. 



Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. No supra- 

 nasals ; rostral large, posterior border convex and forming a curved 

 suture with the frontonasal, which is in contact posteriorly with the 

 anterior angle of the frontal; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct. Ear-opening very large, circular, without projecting 

 lobules. 31 smooth scales round the body. A pair of large 

 prseanals. Brown above, with a deep black lateral band ; belly 

 yellowish white. 



Hal. Nicobars. I have not seen this lizard. 



The following species is insufficiently described : 



MOCOA FORMOSA, Blyth, J. A . S. B. xxii, 1853, p. 651 ; Theob. 

 Cat. Eept. Mus. As. Soc. p. 26 ; id. Cat. p. 58. 



" Length 7 in., of which the tail measures half. Scales hexagonal, 

 in dorsal series. Prseanal scales similar to the abdominal. 

 Form robust. Frontal shield elongate-pentagonal, broadest to the 

 front, and rounded posteriorly. Internasal and frontonasals 

 lozenge-shaped, or somewhat fan-shaped, broader than long. 

 Erontoparietals distinct, but unsynimetrically divided. Colour olive- 

 green, with black lateral and pale superlateral bands as usual, the 

 former much speckled with greenish white, and the latter showing 

 a series of black spots. Between the pale snperlateral streaks are 

 five narrow black lines along the nape and body, variegated with 

 angular greenish-white spots. A few such spots appear also on 

 the upper surface of the tail, caused by a scale variegated with 

 black and greenish white here and there placed. Limbs minutely 

 pencilled with black, and spots or streaks of the same upon the 

 head. Underparts greenish-plumbeous throughout." 



Nab. Mirzapur (N.W.P.), and Wazirabad, Punjab. 



