8. Lyeosoma. 2943 
millim. millim 
Total length ........ 177 Fore limb ...... 19 
Heads 55 e veces aes 14 Hind limb...... 32 
Width of head ...... 9 PAM a anck deer 114 
Body cca sien siy ae ss 49 
Eastern Himalayas, Northern Bengal, Burma, Tenasserim, 
Andaman Islands. 
a, Ad. Sikkim, Sir J. Hooker [P.]. 
6. Ad. Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [P.]. 
e-f. Ad. & yg. Sikkim. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
g-h, i-k. Ad. Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C-]. 
& her. 
l-m.- a Burma. F, Day, Esq. [P.]. 
n-o, Ad. Elphinstone Island, Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 
Mergui. 
p-q. Ad. King Island,Mergui. Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 
Lygosoma sanctum, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 732, from Java, described 
from a young specimen in bad condition, is probably closely allied 
to the preceding species. 
26. Lygosoma dussumieri. 
Hinulia dussumieri, Gray, Cat. p. 75. 
Lygosoma dussumieri, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 725. 
Eumeces dussumieri, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc, 1870, 
Hinulia dussumierii, Stokiczka, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p, 124, 
pl. iv. fig. 8; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 55. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb equals once to once and one third the distance 
between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse ; loreal region con- 
cave. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no 
supranasal ; rostral flat or a little concave above, largely in contact 
with the frontonasal, which is broader than long and sometimes in 
contact with the frontal; prefrontals sometimes forming a median 
suture ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and parietals together, in 
contact with the three (or two) anterior supraoculars ; five large 
supraoculars, first two sometimes fused to a single shield, first much 
longer than second ; a very small posterior supraocular ; ; eleven to 
thirteen supraciliaries, first and last largest; frontoparietals and 
interparietal distinct, subequal in length ; parietals forming a short 
suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; fifth and sixth upper 
labials largest and below the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than 
the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 40 smooth scales round the 
middle of the body; laterals smallest. A pair of large preanals, 
The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the ear. Digits long, com- 
pressed ; subdigital lamelle unicarinate, 22 or 23 under the fourth 
il almost twice as long as head and body. Pale olive above, 
toe. Ta 
with small light spots or a series of dark brown spots along each 
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