REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS FROM TENASSERIM 479 
32 smooth scales round the middle of the body, laterals very 
slightly smaller than dorsals. A pair of large preeanals. The 
adpressed limbs meet, or the hind limb reaches the wrist in the 
adult; the hind limb reaches the axilla in the young. Digits 
rather elongate, compressed; subdigital lamellae smooth or obtu- 
sely keeled, 20 to 22 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a 
half to once and three fourths the length of head and body. 
Brown or bronzy above, uniform, with a broad dark brown or 
black lateral band, below which the lips and sides of the neck 
and body are ornamented with alternately dark and light ver- 
tical bars; these markings most distinct in the young; usually 
a black line or series of black spots along the upper surface 
of the tail; lower surfaces uniform whitish. 
Total length . iz 
Head . . . . . » 17 
Width of head » 12.5 
Body . . . È . » 80 
Fore limb - : c . » 2D 
Hind limb » 37 
Tail (reproduced) . : » 130 
Several specimens. Pla-poo; M.* Mooleyit. 
Closely allied to L. indicum, Gray, but differing in the smaller 
number of scales round the body (30-32 instead of 36-38). 
23. Lygosoma maculatum, Biyru. 
M.! Mooleyit; Thagatà Juwà; Meetan; Valley of the Hung- 
darau River. 
24. Lygosoma melanostictum, sp. n. 
Section Liolepisma. Habit lacertiform; the distance between 
the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and 
one third to once anl 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 su- 
pranasal ; frontonasal much broader than long, forming a broad 
suture with the rostral; preefrontals forming a median suture; 
frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 
