310 SCINCID^. 



raillim. millim. 



Total length 134 Fore limb 10 



Head 11 Hind limb 14 



"Width of head .... 7'5 Tail (reproduced) . . 68 



Body 55 



Southern and Central India, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Malay 

 Peninsula. 



a-(L Ad., hgr., & yg., Madras. T. C. Jerdon Esq. [P.]. 



dry. (Types.) 



e. Ad, Denkanicottah hills. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



/, f/-7n. Ad. & hgr. Godavery valley. W. T. Blautbrd, Esq. [P.]. 



71. Ad. Bengal. W. C. Masters, Esq. [P.]. 



o-q. Ad. & hgr. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



112. Lygosoma punctatum. 



Mabouya elegans, Gi-ay, Cat. p. 65. 

 Eiopa hai'dwickii, Gray, I. c. p. 96. 

 Lacerta punctata, Linn. S. N. i. p. .369. 

 Stellio punctatus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 58. 

 Lacerta interpunctata, Gmel, 8. N. p. 1075. 

 Scinciis punctatus, Schneid. Jlist. Amph. ii. p. 197. 



biliueatus, Dand. Rept. iv. p. 256. 



Eumeces punctatus, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 36 ; Peters, SU.zh. Ges. 



Naturf. Fr. 1879, p. ;^5. 

 punctatus, part., Dum. S)- L'ibr. v. p. 634 ; Gravenh. N. Acta 



Ac. Cces.-Lcop. xxiii. i. 1851, p. 359, pi. xxxviii. 

 Riopa hardwickii, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 478 ; 



Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 132, pi. v. fig. 5 ; 



Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. hid. p. 03. 

 Eumeces hardwickii, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 92. 

 Euprepes punctatus, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 44. 



Body elongate, limbs weak ; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained twice to twice and a half in 

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

 eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Suprauasals distinct, in 

 contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal much broader than long, 

 forming a suture with the frontal ; pra^frontals small ; frontal about 

 as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; usually 

 seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually a little larger 

 than interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 

 parietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 

 parietals ; fifth ujiper la])ial below the eye. Ear-opening small, 

 oval, with one or two small lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 scales 

 round the middle of the body, all smooth, subequal. Marginal 

 pracanals not or scarcely enlarged. The fore limb, when stretched 

 forwards, reaches a little beyond the ear ; the length of the hind 

 limb is more than one third of the distance between axiUa and groin. 

 Digits feebly compressed ; fourth toe longer than third ; subdigital 



