244 sciNCiD^, 



side of the back ; a broad dark brown lateral band, involving tbe 

 upper half of the ear, edged above and below with a light streak ; 

 tail reddish ; lower surface of head and body greenish white. 



millira. millim. 



Total length 168 Fore limb 23 



Head . . 15 Hind limb 37 



Width of head .... 9 Tail 109 



Body 44 



Malabar. 



a-g. Ad., hgr., & yg. Malabar. CoL Beddome [C.]. 



27. Lygosoma melanopogon. 



Hinulia nsevia, part., Gray, Cat. p. 75. 

 Lygosoma melanopogon, part., Dum. S; Bibr. v. p. 723. 

 Tiliqua nsevia, part., Gray, in Grey's Trav. Austr. ii. p. 426. 

 Lygosoma (Hinulia) meyeri, Doria, Ann. Mas. Genova, vi. 1874, 



p. 332, pi. xi. fig. b ; O'Shaughn. Zool. Hec. 1875, p. 97; Peters 



^ Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 341. 



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

 the fore limb equals once and two fifths to once and a half the distance 

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

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal ; rostral large and 

 convex, forming a broad suture with the concave anterior border of 

 the frontonasal, which is at least twice as broad as long ; praefrontals 

 forming a median suture, sometimes separated by a small azygos 

 shield ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, 

 in contact with the three anterior supraoculars ; six or seven supra- 

 oculars, first at least twice as long as second ; eleven supraciliaries, 

 first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in 

 length ; parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal ; 

 usually no uuchals ; fifth or sixth upper labial largest and below 

 the centre of the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, nearly as large as 

 the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 44 to 50 smooth scales 

 round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A 

 pair of large praeanals. The hind limb reaches the elbow or nearly 

 the axilla. Digits moderately elongate, compressed ; subdigital 

 lameUse unicarinatc, 17 to 10 under the fourth toe. Tail not quite 

 once and a half the length of head and body. Brown above, with 

 dark brown transverse spots or network ; these spots usually largest 

 on the sides of the neck ; lower surfaces yellowish or brownish, 

 throat sometimes with brown longitudinal lines. 



