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SCINCIDJE. 



distance between axilla and groin. Snont short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Hnprauasals present, 

 in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal much broader than long, 

 forming a suture with the frontal ; proefrontals small and widely 

 separated ; frontal usually as long as or a little longer than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; six to eight 

 supraciliaries, first and last largest ; frontoparietals distinct, 

 usually larger than the interparietal : parictals forming a suture 

 behind tlie interparietal; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 

 border the parietals ; usually, fifth upper labial below the eye. 

 Ear-opening small, roundish or oval. 24 or 20 scales round the 

 middle of the bod}-, all smooth, subequal. Marginal praeanals not 

 or scarcely enlarged. The fore limb, when stretched forwards, 

 reaches the ear or not quite so far ; the length of the hind limb is 

 contained four times or a little more in the distance between axilla 

 and groin. Digits feebly compressed ; fourth toe longer than third ; 

 subdigital lamellae feebly unicarinate, 33 or 14 under the fourth 

 toe. Tail thick, considerably longer than head and body. Brownish 

 or yellowish olive above, each scale with a black spot ; these spots 

 sometimes confluent into longitudinal lines : sometimes a more or 

 less distinct light dorso-lateral band : the black spots usually larger 

 on the sides, and sometimes intermixed with white ones ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish white, usually with a black dot on each scale. 



millim. 



Total length 250 



Head 15 



Width of head .... 10 



Eody 90 



Central and Southern India. 



millim. 



Fore limb 12 



Hind limb 17 



Tail 145 



114. Lygosoma cyanellum. 



Riopa angnina, part., Theohald, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 



" P- ^ 



Anders. Pioc. Zool. Sue. IbTl, p. 159. 



18m, p. 27; 



cyanella, Sioh'czka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xh. 1872, p. 130, 



pi. v. fig. 3; Theoh. Cat. JRept. Brit. Ind. p. (55. 



Yery closely allied to L. angninum, but the limbs a little longer. 

 The fore limb reaches slightly beyond the ear, and the length of the 



