242 : SCINCIDE. 
Tail almost twice as long as head and body. Brown or olive above, 
uniform or with scattered darker dots; sides of head and body dark 
brown, light-margined above ; flanks usually with large light spots ; 
lower surfaces whitish. 
-  maillim. millim 
Total length ...... 224 Fore limb ........ 25 
HEA |. seas gt Ge 18 Hind limb........ 36 
Width of head .... 12 FEAL igen ra greets 144 
BODY se a gala wares 62 
Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma. 
a, 6. Ad. Himalayas. Sir J. Hooker([P.]. (Ty a 
c, Ad. Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [P. ]. 
d. Ad Darjeeling. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.}. 
e. Ad. —? 
25. Lygosoma maculatum. 
Lissonota maculata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 653. 
Mabouia maculata, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 84. 
Hinulia maculata, Theob, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 25; Stoliczka, 
Journ, As. Soc, Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 174, and xli, 1872, p. 128; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 55. 
Eumeces indicus, part., Giinth. 1. ce. p. 89; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1871, p. 158. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb equals once and one fifth to once and a half the distance 
between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse; loreal region nearly 
vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; 
no supranasal; rostral perfectly flat or a little concave above, largely 
in contact with the frontonasal, which is broader than long, and forms 
a narrow suture with the frontal; latter shield as long as fronto- 
parietals and parietals together, in contact with the two or three 
anterior supraoculars; five large supraoculars, first much longer 
than second, fifth smallest ; nine or ten supraciliaries, first and last 
largest; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, former a little 
longer than latter; parietals forming a short suture behind the in- 
terparietal ; no nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials largest and 
below the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening ; 
no auricular lobules. 38 or 40 smooth scales round the middle of 
the body; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of large pre- 
anals. The hind limb reaches the elbow or the axilla. Digits long, 
compressed ; subdigital lamelle feebly unicarinate, 16 to 21 under 
the fourth toe. Tail almost twice as long as head and body. Brown 
or olive-brown above, usually with two dorsal series of small dark 
brown spots; a dark brown lateral band, usually spotted with 
whitish and edged below with white, extends from the nostril to 
the tail, passing through the eye and above the ear; flanks white- 
spotted ; lower surfaces white. 
