242 sciNCiD^. 



Tail almost twice as long as head and body. Brown or olive above, 

 uniform or with scattered darker dots ; sides of head and body dark 

 brown, light-margined above ; flanks usually with large light spots ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. inillim. 



Total length 224 Fore limb 25 



Head 18 Hind limb 36 



Width of head .... 12 Tail 144 



Body 02 



Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma. 



a, b. Ad. Himalayas. Sir J. Hooker [P.]. (Type.) 



c. Ad. Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [P.]. 



d. Ad Darjeeliug. W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 



e. 



Ad. ? 



25. Lygosoma maculatum. 



Lissonota maculata, Blyth, Jouni. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 653. 



Mabouia maculata, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 84. 



Himilia macidata, TJieob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. 3Ius. p. 25 ; Stoliczka, 



Journ. As. Sue. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 174, and xli. 1872, p. 123; 



Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. hid. p. 55. 

 Eumeces indicus, part., Giinth. I, c. p. 89 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1871, p. 158. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb equals once and one fifth to once and a half the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse ; loreal region nearly 

 vertical. Lower eyeUd scaly. Xostril pierced in a single nasal ; 

 no suprauasal ; rostral perfectly flat or a little concave above, largely 

 in contact with the frontonasal, which is broader than long, and forms 

 a narrow suture with the frontal ; latter shield as long as fronto- 

 parietals and parietals together, in contact with the two or three 

 anterior supraoculars : five large supraoculars, first much longer 

 than second, fifth smallest : nine or ten supraciliaries, first and last 

 largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, former a little 

 longer than latter ; parietals forming a short suture behind the in- 

 terparietal ; no nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials largest and 

 below the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening ; 

 no auricular lobules. 38 or 40 smooth scales round the middle of 

 the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of lai'ge pra:- 

 anals. The hind limb reaches the elbow or the axilla. Digits long, 

 compressed; subdigital lamella^ feebly unicarinate, 16 to 21 under 

 the fourth toe. Tail almost twice as long as head and body. 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, extends from the nostril to 

 the tail, passing through the eye and above the ear ; flanks white- 

 spotted ; lower surfaces white. 



