144, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1905. 
axilla and groin. Head very small; snout short, obtusely pointed, 
convex above. Lower eyelid scaly; a postnasa 
separated by frontonasal. Prefrontals form a median suture; 
frontal shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together; 
parietals meet behind interparietal, one pair of enlarged nuchals. 
Jar-opening a little smaller than eye-opening, longitudinal, 
without lobules. Thirty scales round centre of body; dorsals, 
much broken) at least three times as long as, stout in comparison 
with, body. 
One specimen from Cachar (Mus. colltr.). 
Anderson was right in regarding this species as allied to 
Theobald’s Huprepes monticola, from which, however, it is quite 
distinct. 
LyGosoma macuLaTum, (Blyth) 
L. maculatum, Blgr., Faun. Ind., Rept., p. 196. 
Comparison with other specimens (of which we have a very 
large series), shows that those from Narcondam (see Annandale, 
J.A.S.B., (2) 1904, Suppl., p.13) belong to this species. Boulenger 
says (loc. cit. and similarly in the Catalogue of Lizards iii, p. 242), 
“distance between end of snout and fore-limb equals 1} to 1} times 
distance between axilla and groin.” This is obviously a lapsus 
calamt, for the latter distance is the greater. 
LYGOSOMA MITANENSE, sp. noy. 
Diagnosis— 
Allied to Lygosoma indicum, with which it agrees in lepidosis, 
except that it has 42 smooth scales round the centre of the body, 
the dorsals being considerably larger than the laterals or the 
ventrals. The hind limb i 
Dimensions of type— 
Total Lengt »» 130%, tom, 
Head ea a 
Body Ce ee 
Tail 2 ee 
Fore-limb ... i G 
Hind Lim 25 
b — 
Breadth of Head i. 6°5 
ys . single specimen from Meetan, Lower Burma (Tenasserém 
xpt.). 
