258 



SCINCID^. 



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

 the tore limb is contained once and a half to twice in the distance 

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

 an undivided transparent disk. Xostril pierced in the nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 

 the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield as long as fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two, rarely 

 three, anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; six 

 to eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 

 subequal, or latter smallest ; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; three or four pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper labial 

 entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, much smaller than the eye- 

 opening, about as large as the transparent palpebral disk, with one to 

 three projecting lobules or granules anteriorly. 20 to 30 smooth scales 

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

 pair of large pra'anals. The adpressed limbs fail to meet, meet, or 

 overlap. Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamelte smooth, 16 to 18 

 under the fourth toe. Tail once and two fifths to once and two thirds 

 the length of head and body. Eronzy olive or brown above, with 

 smaU. dark, and sometimes also Hght, spots ; a blackish vertebral 

 streak sometimes present ; a broad blackish-brown lateral band, 

 usually edged above and below by a light streak ; lower surfaces 

 greenish white or plumbeous. 



inillim. 



Total length 157 



Head 12 



Width of head 9 



Body . . 53 



Western Himalayas. 



a-h. Hgr. & yg. 

 c. Hgr. 



d-e. Ad. & hgr. 

 /, y. Several spec. 



ad. & hor. 

 h-k. Ad. & hgr. 



Gurwhal. 

 Simla. 

 Kashmere. 

 Kashmere. 



Ladak. 



millim. 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 23 



Tan 92 



Messrs. v. Schlagintweit fP.]. 



Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 

 Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P]. 



P. 

 P. 



45. Lygosoma ladacense. (Plate XVII. fig. 3.) 



Eumeces ladacensis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 88, pi. x. fig. i ; 



Anders. Prvc. Zuol. Soc. 1872, p. 375. 

 Euprepes stoliczkai, Steind. ^ovara, Rept. p. 4o. 



kargilifusis, Steind. I. c. p. 46. 



Mocoa stoliczkfe, Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 59 ; Blanf. 2n'] 



Yark. Miss., Rept. p. 20. 

 kargilensis, Theoh. I. c. p. 60. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained once and a half to once and two thirds 

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

 Lower eyelid w ith an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced 



