8. LYG080MA. 



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lamella? feebly unicarinate, 11 to 14 under the fourth toe. Tail 

 thick, as long as, or a little longer than, head and body. Brown or 

 ohvo above, each scale with a dark brown spot ; these spots some- 

 times conhueut into longitudinal lines ; a more or less miirked 

 yellowish streak or band on' each side, beginning on the caiithus 

 rostralis ; sides sometimes blackish brown, white-dotted ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish white, uniform, or each scale with a black central 

 dot ; tail reddish in the young. 



Total length 



Head 



Width of head 



Body 



luillim. 



137 



15 

 11 



79 



millim. 



Fore limb 13 



Hind liml) 20 



Tail (reproduced ) . . 50 



India, Ceylon. 



a. Yg., very bad 

 state. 



b. Yg. 



c. Yg. 



d. Yg. 

 «-/■• Yg. 

 9' Yg. 

 /*. Hgr. 



i. Several spec. : 



hgi-. & yg. 

 k. Yg. 



l-m. Ad. & hgr. 

 n-o. Yg. 

 p-r. Ad. & hgr. 

 s~u. Ad. & hgr. 

 V. Several spec. : 



ad., hgr., & yg. 

 w. Ad. 

 x-y. Hgr. 

 s, a. Many spec. : 



ad., hgr., & yg. 

 ^. Ad. 

 y-e. Ad. & hgr. 



India. 



India. 



Patna. 



Belgaum. 



Matberan. 



Godavery vallej', 



Madras. 



Madras. 



S. Canara. 

 Nilgherries. 

 Nilambar. 

 Golcoudab hiUs. 

 •leypore hills. 

 Sevagherry hills. 



Anamallays. 

 Tinuevelly. 

 S. India. 



Ceylou. 

 Ceylon. 



Gen.llardwicke [P.]. (Type 



of Riopa hardtvickii.) 

 J.^V^ight,Esq.[P.J. (Type 



of Mahomja elegam.) 

 W. C. Masters, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.I. 

 Dr. Leitli [P.]. 

 W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 

 — Boileau, Esq. [P.]. 

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



Col. Beddome [C.]. 



Col. Beddome [C. 

 Col. Beddome [C. 

 Col. Beddome fC. 

 Col. Beddome [C. 



Col. Beddome [C. 

 Col. Beddome [ C. 

 Col. Beddome [C. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 



113. Lygosoma guentheri. 



Riopa punctata. Gray, Cat. p. 96. 

 ? Seps scincoides, Cuo. R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. G4. 

 Riopa punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 332 ; Stoliczka, Journ. 



As. Sot'. Beny. xh. 1872, p. 133 ; Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 64. 

 Eumeces punctatus, part., Dum. 8f Bibr. v. p. 634. 



punctatus, Gilnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 93. 



guentheri, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Natiirf. Freunde, 1879, p. 36. 



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

 of the snout and the fore limb is contained about three times in the 



