480 G. A. BOULENGER 
contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, 
first longer than second; nine or ten supraciliaries; frontopa- 
rietals 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. 34 or 36 smooth scales 
round the middle of the body, laterals smallest. A pair of 
slightly enlarged preeanals. The adpressed limbs hardly meet, 
or slightly overlap. Digits subcylindrical; subdigital lamellee 
smooth, 17 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to 
once and three fourths the length of head and body. Pale 
brown or bronzy above, with black dots, which are crowded 
to form a lateral band from the snout to the tail; lips and 
flanks whitish or pinkish, dotted with black; lower surfaces 
whitish, throat often dotted with black. 
Total length . . millim. 123 
Head . . . . . » 12 
Width of head . » 8 
Body . . . . . » 48 
Fore limb . : . . » 14.5 
Hind limb : : i » 21 
Tail (reproduced) . » 63 
Several specimens. Pla-poo. M. Fea found this species between 
1000 and 1500 metres, but neither above nor below. 
The nearest ally of L. melanostictum is L. kakhienense, recently 
described in these Annals (ser. 2, vol. IV, 1887, p. 621), which 
agrees in the absence of enlarged nuchals, but differs chiefly in 
the smaller number of scales round the body (80) and the 
separation of the preefrontals. 
25. Tropidophorus berdmorii, BLyTH. 
Thagata Juwa. 
Scales in 36 or 38 longitudinal rows; in some specimens 
the keels are visible, and extremely feeble, only on the hind 
part of the back and on the tail. 
