650 MB. STANLET S. FLO^VEE ON THE [May 1 6, 



Size. Total length 183 mm. (snt. to vnt. 70 ; tail 113); arm 

 25 mm. ; leg 38 mm. ; width of head 12 mm. 



Hub. Malay Peninsula, Celebes, Philippines, Moluccas, Papuasia, 

 Cape Tork, Caroline and Santa Cruz Islands. 



83. LxGOSOiiA siNGAPOEEXSE (Steindachn.). 

 Lyrjosoma singnporense, BIgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 297. 

 Hah. Malay Peninsula (Singapore). 



84. LtGOSOMA ITELAKOSTICTTIir BlgT. 



Lyqosoma melanostictum, Blgr. Ann. Mus. Grenova (2) v. 1887, 

 p. 479, pi. vii. fig. 2. 



Localities. Of this skink, which does not seem to have been 

 previously recorded from Siam, I have seen five specimens, four 

 said to have been caught in Bangkok and one from Chantaboon. 



Description. The latter specimen only differs from the description 

 of this species in the British Museum Catalogue in the following 

 points: — 1st, frontal shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together ; 2nd, about 38 smooth scales round the middle of the 

 body ; 3rd, prseanals distinctly enlarged ; 4th, the adpressed limbs 

 overlap. 



Coheir (in spirit). Above pale bronze-brown, with indistinct 

 darker brown spots forming two irregular dorsal lines ; an indistinct 

 darker brown lateral line from behind the eye to the base of the 

 tail, narrowly and indistinctly bordered above with yellow ; lower 

 surfaces and lips pale yellowish green. 



Eah. Burma, Siam. 



85. Ltgosoha BOWHiXGii (Giinther). 



Lygosoma bowringii, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 303, pi. xxiii. fig. 3. 



Siamese. " Mee-ang-ngu " (a term which more properly applies 

 to L. clialcides). 



Localities. It seems curious that Bowring's Skink does not appear 

 to have been hitherto recorded from Siam, wliere I found it at 

 Bangkok, Ayuthia, Kosichang, and Chantaboon. Peters recorded 

 a specimen from Singapore, but I know of no other instance of its 

 being found there or in other parts of the Straits Settlements. 



Habits. Though very numerous in Siam this lizard is seldom 

 seen by the ordinary observer, as, instead of delighting in brilliant 

 sunshine like Mahuia siamensis, it spends the day hiding under 

 stones, logs, &c., and only goes abroad after its prey at twilight. 



Description. (Drawn up from fifteen Siamese specimens.) Body 

 elongate, limbs short. The distance between the end of the snout 

 and the fore-limb is to the distance between axilla and groin as 1 

 is to from Ij^ to 2^. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. 

 Supranasals in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal much 

 broader than long, forming a broad suture with the frontal ; prae- 

 frontals small ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four 



