360 SCINCID^. 



B. Two or three large proeanals, 



1. Upper head-shields smooth. 



Dorsal scales keeled 4. berdmorii, p. 362. 



Scales all smooth 5. yunnanensis, p. 362. 



2. Upper head-shields rugose or striated. 



Dorsal scales keeled, not mucronate, ven- 



trals smooth 6. sinicus, p. 362. 



Dorsal scales strongly keeled, ending in 



a point ; subdigital lamellae smooth . . 7. cochincJiinensis, p. 363. 



Dorsal scales strongly keeled, spinose, 

 ventrals usually keeled ; subdigital la- 

 mellae keeled 8. grayi, p. 364. 



1. Tropidophorus leucospilus. 



Lygosoma (Hinulia) leucospilos, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, p. 684. 



Head-shields perfectly smooth ; a single frontonasal, much broader 

 than long ; praefrontals forming a median suture ; frontal little 

 longer than the frontoparietal, which is single : four supraoculars, 

 first longest ; eleven supraciliaries ; parietals forming a suture 

 behind the interpfirietal ; fourth to sixth upper labials below the 

 orbit, from which they are separated by a series of scales ; an azygos 

 postmental. Tympanum smaller than the eye-opening. Scales all 

 perfectly smooth, dorsals largest, 30 round the middle of the body. 

 A pair of enlarged praeanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist. Sub- 

 digital lamellae smooth. Tail a little longer than head and body, 

 compressed. Brown above, variegated with darker, and with bluish- 

 white spots arranged in longitudinal and transverse series ; base of 

 arm, axilla, and lower surfaces uniform yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 118 Fore limb 15 



Head 12 Hind limb 21 



Width of head 8 Tail 63 



Body 43 



Philippines. 



''. Ad. Luzon. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



2. Tropidophorus beccarii. 



Amphixestus beccarii, Peters, 3Ion. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 574, and Ann. 

 3Ius. Genova, iii. 1872, p. 33, pi. iv. fig. 3. 



Upper head-shields smooth ; a single frontonasal, a little broader 

 than long ; praefrontals forming a median suture : frontal as long as 

 or a little longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together ; 

 five supraoculars, first longest, fifth very small ; six or seven supra- 

 ciliaries anterior to the foiirth supraocular, wliich borders the eve ; 

 frontoparietals shorter than the interparietal, behind which the 



