8. LTGOSOJIA. 2G1 



Southern India. 



a-c. Hgr. & yg. Top of Sivaghen-y Ghat. CoL Beddome [C.l. 



d. Yg. " Wala Ghat, Nilgherries. Col. Beddome [C.J. 



e. Yg. Nilgherries. T. C. Jerdoii, Esq. [P.]. 

 /. Yg. Travancore. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



48. Lygosoma heddomii. (Plate XVIII. fig. 3.) 



Mocoa travankorica, part., ]>cd<Ioi>ic, Madras Journ. Med. Sc, 1870 ; 

 Theoh. Cat. Itept. Brit. Ind. p. oS. 



The distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is 

 contained once and one third to once and three fifths in the distance 

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

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

 suprauasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 

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

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest and, 

 sometimes also the thii'd, toucliing the supraciliary margin ; five to 

 seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, longer than the inter- 

 parietal ; 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, without projecting 

 lobules or granules. 20 or 22 smooth scales round the middle of 

 the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of feebly en- 

 larged prseanals, not much longer than broad. The adpressed limbs 

 just meet in the adult, overlap in the young. Digits subcylindrical ; 

 subdigital lamella; smooth, 17 or 18 under the fourth toe. Tail 

 once and two thirds the length of head and body. Bronzy brown 

 above, lighter on the limit of the blackis^h-brown colour, which covers 

 the sides of the head and body ; sometimes a blackish vertebral line ; 

 limbs dark brown ; lower surfaces dark brown or bronzy olive, the 

 scales edged with darker. 



millim. milh'm. 



From snout to vent . 58 Fore limb 14 



Head 11 Hind limb 20 



AYidth of head .... 8 



Southern India. 



a-c. Ad. & hgr. Travancore Hills and AVynad. Cul. Beddome [C.]. 



(Types of Mocoa travankorica.) 



49. Lygosoma travancoriciim. (Plate XYIII. fig. 4.) 



Mocoa travankorica, part., Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870 ; 

 Theoh. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 58. 



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

 the fore limb equals or slightly exceeds the distance between axilla 



