SCINCOID LIZARD FROM BURMA 621 
1. Lygosoma kakhienensis, sp. n. 
Section Liolepisma. Habit lacertiform; the distance between 
the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and 
three fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 
short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 
Nostril pierced in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader 
than long, forming a broad suture with the rostral and in con- 
tact with the anterior angle of the frontal ; latter shield a little 
shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 
with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, eight. 
supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal 
in size; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; no 
enlarged nuchals; the suture between the fifth and sixth upper 
labials falls below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, a 
little smaller than the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 30 
smooth, subequal scales round the middle of the body. No en- 
larged preanals. The adpressed limbs slightly overlap. Digits 
subcylindrical; subdigital lamellee smooth, 16 under the fourth 
toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. 
Pale bronzy olive above, with a few black dots; a lateral series 
of large black spots, partly confluent into a band, from above 
the ear to the base of the tail, extending forwards, as a narrow 
streak, to the nostril, and passing through the eye; flanks and 
lips with black dots. 
Total length i . millim. 102 
Head ° a 5 > o » 9 
Width of head . 5 Maan: 5.5 
Body . 3 ; P Bh Ahi 31 
Fore limb. ; } Mesa 10 
Hind limb . È è i 14 
ae ire ; : 4 EV 62 
A single specimen from the Kakhien Hills (Fea). 
