8. LTQOSOIIA. 2o7 



43. Lygosoma sikkimense. 



Mocoa sikkimensi3, BIyth, Joiirn. As. !Suc. Bcng. xxii. 18o4, p. 052 ; 



Sfoliczka, Juitrn. As. >Soc. Beny. xli. 1872, p. 120, pi. v. lig. 2 ; 



Theub. Cat. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 50. 

 TiliquaschleH:elii, Giinfh. I'roc. Zuol. Soc. 1800, p. 153, pi. xxv. fig. C. 

 Eumeces schlegelii, Gilnth. Rcpt, Brit. Ind. p. 80. 



sikimensis, Anders. Proc. Zool. iSoc. 1871, p. 158. 



Mocoa sacra, Stoliczkd, I. c. p. 128, pi. iv. liy. 4j Theoh. I. c. p. 57. 



Body more or less elongate ; the distance between tlie end of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained once and one third to twice in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid with an undivided ti-ansparcnt disk. Nostril pierced in the 

 nasal; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than lout;-, forming a 

 suture -with the rostral and usually also with the frontal; latter 

 shield as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 

 contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 

 second largest ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoi^arietals 

 and interparietal distinct, subequal ; parietals forming a suture 

 behind the interparietal ; two to four pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper 

 labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening small, smaller than the 

 transparent palpebral disk, with or "without very indistinct lobules. 

 22 to 24 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest. 

 A pair of large pra}anals. The adpressed limbs fail to meet, meet, 

 or overlap. Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellee smooth, 16 

 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to once and three 

 fourths the length of head and body. Bronzy olive or brown 

 above, dark brown on the sides, which are limited above by a blackish 

 line ; back with small blackish spots ; sides with small light spots ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 116 Fore limb 14 



Head 11 Hind limb 18 



Width of head .... 8 Tail 70 



Body 35 



Eastern Himalayas ; Parisnath Hill, Western Bengal. 



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



(Type of Tiliqua schlegdii.) 

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



c-g. Ad. & hgT. Sikkim. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



h-k, I. Ad. Darjeeling. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



44. Lygosoma Mmalayanum. (Plate XVII. fig. 2.) 



Eumeces himalayanus, Gilnth.. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 86, pi, x. fig. H. 

 Euprepes himalayanus, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 45. 



blythi, Steind. I. c. p. 46. 



Mocoa himalayana, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 127; 



Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 57 ; Blanf. 2nd Yark. 3Iiss., Rept. 



p. 19. 



blythii, Theob. I. c. p. 59. 



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