316 SCINCID.E. 



119. Lygosoma lineatum. (Plate XXV. fig. 3.) 



Chiamela lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 97. 

 Chiamela linoata, Gray, Ann. N. it. ii. 1839, p. 333 ; Gi'inth. Hept. 

 Brit. ImJ. p. 95 ; StoUczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beny. xli. 1872, p. 135; 

 Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. G6. 



Body much elongate ; limbs very short, tctradactyle ; the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained thrice 

 and a half to four times in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Supranasals present, in contact behind the rostral ; fronto- 

 nasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture with the 

 frontal ; pra?frontals small, widely separated ; frontal shelter than 

 the interparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars ; six or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals fused 

 into a single large shield ; interparietal distinct, not much shorter 

 than the frontal ; parietals forming a suture behind the interpa- 

 rietal ; no nuchals; fourth and fifth upper labials below the eye. 

 Ear-opening very small. 22 smooth, subequal scales round the 

 middle of the body. Praeanals not enlarged. Third and fourth toes 

 equal; subdigital lamellae smooth. Yellowish brown, each scale 

 with a dark brown spot forming longitudinal lines, which are less 

 marked below than above. 



Total length 130 



Head 

 Eody 



Deccan. 



a. Hgr. 

 b-c. Ad. 

 d. Hgr. 



120. Lygosoma anchietse, 



Eumecia anchietse, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lish. iii. 1870, p. 67, pi. i. 



Body much elongate, cyclotetragoual ; limbs minute, anterior 

 didactyle, posterior tridactyie. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid 

 with an undivided transparent disk. Supranasals present, in con- 

 tact behind the rostral : pra?frontals forming a median suture ; 

 frontal elongated ; four supraoculars ; five supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a suture be- 

 hind the interparietal ; no nuchals (?) ; fifth upper labial below the 

 centre of the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, partly concealed under 

 the two large pointed scales of its anterior border. 24 smooth 

 scales round the middle of the body. Fore limb half the size of the 

 posterior, the two fingers equal ; the two outer toes equal. Tail 

 long. Eufous-olive above, with two reddish-brown longitudinal 



