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meet. Digits short, cylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth or 

 tubercular, 16 to 18 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, 1 3 to If 

 times the length of head aud body. Pale reddish brown above, 

 uniform or with darker dots, and with a more or less distinct darker 

 and a lighter dorso-lateral band ; lower surfaces yellowish. Throat 

 and sides of head and neck, in males, bluish-black, dotted with white. 



From snout to vent 1'6 inches ; tail 2'7. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



236. Lygosoma lineolatum. 



lliopa liueolata, Stoliczka, J.A.S. B. xxxix, 1870, p. 175, pi. x, tig. '2 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. 63. 

 Lygosoma lineolatum, Eouleny, Cat. Liz. iii, p. 314. 



Body much elongate, limbs short ; distance between end of snout 

 and fore lirnb contained about twice aud a half in distance 

 between axilla and groin . Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. 

 Supranasals distinct, in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal 

 very broad, forming a narrow suture with the frontal ; the latter 

 shield as long as the frontoparietal and interparietal together; 

 5 supraoculars, last very small ; frontoparietal fused into a single 

 shield ; interparietal rather small and triangular ; parietals forming 

 a suture behind the interparietal. Ear-opening moderate, rounded, 

 simple. 24 or 25 smooth scales round the middle of the body. 

 Praeanals very slightly enlarged. The length of the hind limb 

 equals the distance between the axilla and the eye. Fourth toe 

 very slightly longer than third. Tail about once and one third the 

 length of head and body. Greenish iridescent brown above, with 

 an almost continuous series of small dark brown dots on each side 

 of the back, beginning at the nape and margined above and below 

 by a pale line ; the centres of all the scales above and on the sides 

 are paler than at the edges, and form straight longitudinal lines. 

 Below whitish, with a vinaceous tinge, and distinctly reddish on the 

 tail. 



From snout to vent 1-5 inches ; tail 2. 



Hab. Martaban, opposite to Moulmein, Burma. Only two speci- 

 mens, which I have not seen, are known. 



237. Lygosoma comotti. 



Lygosoma comotti, Bouleny. Ann. Mus. Geuova, ('2) iv, 1887, p. (j'2'2. 



Body moderately elongate, limbs short ; distance between eiid of 

 snout and fore limb contained once and three fifths in distance 

 between axilla and groin. Head much depressed ; snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Supranasals present, forming a suture 

 behind the rostral ; froutonasal broader than long, forming a broad 

 suture with the frontal ; latter shield as long as f routoparietals 

 and parietals together, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 oculars ; 4 supraoculars ; 8 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal distinct, subequal in size ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal ; no enlarged nuchals ; sixth upper labial below 



