210 SCINCIDJB. 



stretched forwards, reaches the ear or not quite so far ; the length 

 of the hind limb is contained four times or a little more in the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Digits feebly compressed ; 

 fourth toe longer than third; subdigital lamellae feebly unicarmate, 

 13 or 14 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, considerably longer than 

 head and body. Brownish or yellowish olive above, each scale with 

 a black spot; these spots sometimes confluent into longitudinal 

 lines ; sometimes a more or less distinct light dorso-lateral band ; 

 the black spots usually larger on the sides, and sometimes inter- 

 mixed with white ones; lower surfaces yellowish white, usually 

 with a black dot on each scale. 



From snout to vent 4 inches ; tail 5-5. 



Hob. Southern India, Bombay, and the Deccau. 



241. Lygosoma feae. 

 Lygosoma feae, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (2) iv, 1887, p. 623. 



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

 fore limb contained twice in distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Supranasals distinct, in contact behind the rostral ; fronto- 

 nasal twice as broad as long, forming a suture with the frontal ; the 

 latter shield about as large as a frontoparietal or the iuterparietal, 

 in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars ; 

 7 supraciliaries ; froutoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal 

 in size ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair 

 of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth upper 

 labial below tbe centre of the eye. Ear-opening small, round. 22 

 smooth equal scales round the middle of the body. No enlarged 

 praeanals. The fore limb stretched forwards reaches a little beyond 

 the ear ; the hind limb measures one third the distance between axilla 

 and groin. Fourth toe a little longer than third ; subdigital lamellae 

 smooth, 10 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, a little longer than 

 head and body. Yellowish brown above, each scale edged with 

 darker; a yellowish dorso-lateral streak; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 1'3 inches ; tail 1'6. 



Sab. Rangoon, Burma. 



242. Lygosoma cyanellum. 



Riopa auguiim, part., Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. x, 1868, p. 27. 

 Riopa cyanella, Stolicska, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, p. 130, pi. v, tig. 3 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. 65. 

 Lygosoma cyanellum, Bouleny. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 312. 



Very closely allied to L. anguinum, but the limbs a little longer. 

 The fore limb reaches slightly beyond the ear, and the length 

 of the hind limb is contained 3| times in the distance between 

 axilla and groin. Fourth toe slightly longer than third. The 

 frontal a little longer and forming a very short suture with the 



