320 scrxciD.i;. 



forming a suture behind the interparietal ; no nuchals ; usually, 

 fifth labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening small, sub- 

 oval, with two or three very small, more or less indistinct, projecting 

 lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 smooth equal scales round the middle 

 of the body. Prajanals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs fail to 

 meet. Digits short, cylindrical ; subdigital lamellce smooth or 

 tubercular, 13 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, once and a 

 half the length of head and body. Yellowish or reddish brown 

 above, usually with a paler brown dorso-lateral band and longitu- 

 dinal series of blackish dots : sides dark brown or blackish, white- 

 dotted ; lower surfaces yellowish ; throat, in males, bluish grey, 

 with or without ^vhite dots. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 141 Fore limb 15 



Head 13 Hind limb 21 



Width of head .... 8-5 Tail 83 



Body 45 



Ceylon. 



a. Ad. Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. (One of the types.) 



b-d. Ad. Ceylon. 



e-i. Ad. & hgr. Centr. Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.]. 



126. Lygosoma fallax. 



Lygosoma fallax, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 181. 

 Eumeces taprobanensis, part., G'dnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 89. 

 Hiniilia taprobanensis, part., Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 56. 



Body rather elongate, limbs short : the distance between the end 

 of the snout and the fore limb is contained about once and a half in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout very short, obtusely 

 acuminate. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; 

 no supranasal ; frontonasal much broader than long, forming a 

 broad suture with the rostral ; praefrontals usually forming a median 

 suture ; frontal as long as or shorter than the frontoparietal, in con- 

 tact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; eight or 

 nine supraciliaries ; frontoparietals united into a single shield, much 

 longer than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; no nuchals : usually, fifth labial below the centre of 

 the eye. Ear-opening small, roundish, with two very small pro- 

 jecting lobules anteriorly. 26 smooth, equal scales round the middle 

 of the body. Praeanals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs fail to 

 meet, or just meet. Digits short, cylindrical; subdigital lameUse 

 smooth or tubercular, 16 to 18 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, 

 once and one third to once and two thirds the length of head and 

 body. Pale reddish brown above, uniform or with darker dots, and 

 with a more or less distinct darker and a lighter dorso-lateral band ; 

 lower surfaces yellowish. Throat and sides of head and neck, in 

 males, bluish black, dotted with white. 



