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slightly longer than third, with 14 16 obtusely keeled 

 lamellae below. 



Yellowish-brown above; head dark brown with a light band 

 across the occiput; sides of head yellow, brown below the 

 eye and the ear-opening; tail olive. Lower parts yellowish. 

 Length of head and body 131 mm.; tail 96 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Indragiri, Palembang); Borneo (Rejang 

 river!). Larut Hills in Perak. 



105. Lygosoma bowringi (Gthr.). 



Eumeces boivringii^ Giinther, Kept. Brit. Ind. 1864, p. 91. 

 Euprepes (Riopa) punctatostriatus^ Peters, MOD. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 31. 

 Lygosoma bowringii, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 308, pi. XXIII, fig. 3. 

 Lygosoma whitekeadi^ Mocquard, Le Natural. XII 1890, p. 144; Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. (3) II 1890, p. 134, pi. VIII fig. 3. 



Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening small, 

 round. Supranasals present, in contact; frontonasal much more 

 broad than long, broadly in contact with the frontal ; prae- 

 frontals small ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars; seven supraciliaries, first and last largest; 

 frontoparietals longer than interparietal ; parietals in contact 

 behind the latter; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals; 

 fourth or fifth upper labial largest, bordering the orbit. Body 

 long, the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore 

 limb is contained one time and a half to two times in the distance 

 between axilla and groin ; 26 30 scales round the middle, 

 almost equal, dorsals feebly tricarinate or almost smooth; 

 praeanals a little enlarged. Tail thick, slightly longer than 

 head and body. Limbs short, the hind limb about three fifths 

 the distance between axilla and groin; digits moderate, com- 

 pressed, fourth toe a little longer than third, with n 14 

 keeled lamellae below. 



Yellowish-brown above, each dorsal scale with a brown 

 spot, the spots forming longitudinal lines ; a dark brown dorso- 

 lateral band, edged above with yellowish; flanks pink to 

 vermilion, spotted with dark and whitish. Lower parts yellowish. 

 Length of head and body 55 mm.; tail 65 mm. 



Type-specimen of L. whiteheadi examined in the Paris 

 Museum. 



