lie/diles and Batrachidiis. 289 



luillim. 



Total k'ligth 247 



Head.... 23 



Width of head 14 



Body G4 



Fore limb 42 



Hind liuib 0() 



Tail 160 



A single specimen, from the Andaman Islands, is preserved 

 in t!ie (Copenhagen Museum, and was communicated to me 

 by Prof. Lilt ken. 



1 his Caloies finds its nearest allj in the Ceylonese C. 

 liol<pis, which differs in its much larger scales and the 

 presence of a pair of spine-like scales on each side of the 

 back of the head. 



Lygosoma suhcceruleum, sp. n. 



Section Keneuxia. Habit lacertiform ; the distance be- 

 tween the end of the snout and the fore limb contained once 

 and one fourth in tlie distance between axilla and groin. 

 ISnout rather elongate, obtusely pointed, much depressed. 

 Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in the middle of a small 

 nasal ; a supranasal, not in contact with its fellow ; fronto- 

 nasal a little broader than long, in contact with the rostral ; 

 pra?.frontals forming a median snture; frontal only a little 

 longer than the interparietal, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; nine 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 

 subequal, the latter separating the parietals ; a pair of 

 nuchals ; four labials anterior io the subocular. Ear-opening 

 very small. Twenty-eight scales round the middle of the 

 body, dorsals feebly striated and a little larger than ventrals. 

 Digits moderately elongate, with strong sharp claws, the 

 basal phalanges somewhat depressed, the distal strongly com^ 

 pressed ; subdigital lamellae smooth, fourteen under the fourth 

 toe. Bronzy olive above, with small whitish black-edged 

 spots ; a dark streak from the eye to the shoulder and a pair 

 of black streaks on the back of the head and nape ; lower 

 parts blue. 



millim. 



Total leugth 120 



Head 15 



Width of head 8 



Body 45 



Fore limb 18 



Hind limb 28 



Tail m 



