244 SCINCID A, 
side of the back; a broad dark brown lateral band, involving the 
upper half of the ear, edged above and below with a light streak ; 
tail reddish ; lower surface of head and body greenish white. 
willim. millim 
Total length ...... 168 Fore limb ........ 23 
Head sive vaend nas 15 Hind limb........ 37 
Width of head .... 9 Tail ssiicse nae ane 109 
Body si.2-2 ct ewes 44 
Malabar. 
a-g. Ad., her., & yg. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
27. Lygosoma melanopogon. 
Hinulia nevia, part., Gray, Cat. p. 76. 
Lygosoma melanopogon, part., Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 723. 
Tiliqua nevia, part., Gray, in Grey’s Trav. Austr. ii. p. 426. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) meyeri, Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, 
. 882, pl. xi. fig. 6; O’Shaughn. Zool. Rec. 1875, p. 97; Peters 
Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 341. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of.the snout and 
the fore limb equals once and two fifths to once and a half the distance 
between axilla and groin. Snoutshort, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. 
Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal; rostral large and 
convex, forming a broad suture with the concave anterior border of 
the frontonasal, which is at least twice as broad aslong; preefrontals 
forming a median suture, sometimes separated by a small azygos 
shield ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, 
in contact with the three anterior supraoculars ; six or seven supra- 
oculars, first at least twice as long as second; eleven supraciliaries, 
first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in 
length ; parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal ; 
usually no nuchals ; fifth or sixth upper labial largest and below 
the centre of the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, nearly as large as 
the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 44 to 50 smooth scales 
round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A 
pair of large preanals. The hind limb reaches the elbow or nearly 
the axilla. Digits moderately elongate, compressed; subdigital 
lamelle unicarinate, 17 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail not quite 
once and a half the length of head and body. Brown above, with 
dark brown transverse spots or network; these spots usually largest 
on the sides of the neck; lower surfaces yellowish or brownish, 
throat sometimes with brown longitudinal lines. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 208 Fore limb..... .. 25 
Head ............ 20 Hind limb ...... 40 
Width of head .... 14 Pads Sencar natn grain oes 118 
Body saves Ga5e oc 70 
Papuasia. 
