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 postnasal. Supranasals 
separated by frontonasal. Prefrontals form a median suture; 
frontal shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together ; 
parietals meet behind interparietal, one pair of enlarged nuchals. 
Har-opening a little smaller than eye-opening, longitudinal, 
without lobules. Thirty scales round centre of body; dorsals, 
laterals and nuchals with 4 to 6 keels, only two of which are at all 
strongly marked. Length from snout to vent 35 mm.; tail (now 
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. 
Lycosoma 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 ii, p. 242), 
“distance between end of snout and fore-limb equals 11 to 14 times 
distance between axilla and groin.” This is obviously a lapsus 
calamt, for the latter distance is the greater. 
LiyGOSOMA MITANENSE, sp. nov. 
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 reaches a point midway between the 
shoulder and the ear. Length from tip of snout to fore-limb is 
contained about 1; times between axilla and groin. The tail, 
which is laterally compressed, is more than twice the length of the 
head and body. The type is much discoloured but appears to 
have been marked in much the same way as L. maculatum. 
Dimensions of type— . 
Total Length 30) samme 
Head wes Re TiO ep 
Body ree ae 34° 
Tail se wae Oia 
Fore-limb ... cis LG. 
Hind Limb ane INS) ee 
Breadth of Head fae 65 
99 
A single specimen from Meetan, Lower Burma (Tenasserim 
Hept:).-' 
