8. Ly@osoma. 261 
Southern India. 
a-c. Her.& yg. Top of Sivagherry Ghat. | Col. Beddome [C.]. 
d. Yg. Wala Ghat, Nilgherries. Col. Beddome [C.]}. 
e. Yg. Nilgherries. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
f. Yg. Travancore. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
48. Lygosoma beddomii. (Prare XVIII. fig. 3.) 
Mocoa travankorica, part., Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 58. 
The distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is 
contained once and one third to once and three fifths in the distance 
between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with 
an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal; no 
supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 
the rostral and with the frontal; latter shield as long as the 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 
first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest and, 
sometimes also the third, touching the supraciliary margin ; five to 
seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, longer than the inter- 
parietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; three 
or four pairs of nuchals; fifth upper labial entering the orbit. ar- 
opening oval, much smaller than the eye-opening, without projecting 
lobules or granules. 20 or 22 smooth scales round the middle of 
the body; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of feebly en- 
larged preeanals, not much longer than broad. The adpressed limbs 
just meet in the adult, overlap inthe young. Digits subcylindrical ; 
subdigital lamellae smooth, 17 or 18 under the fourth toe. Tail 
once and two thirds the length of head and body. Bronzy brown 
above, lighter on the limit of the blackish-brown colour, which covers 
the sides of the head and body ; sometimes a blackish vertebral line ; 
limbs dark brown; lower surfaces dark brown or bronzy olive, the 
scales edged with darker. 
millim. millim. 
From snout to vent. 58 Fore limb........ 14 
Head............ 11 Hind limb........ 20 
Width of head .... 8 
Southern India. 
a-c. Ad. & hgr. Travancore Hills and Wynad. _ Ovul. Beddome [C.]. 
(Types of Mocoa travankorica. 
49. Lygosoma travancoricum. (Prare XVIII. fig. 4.) 
Mocoa travankorica, part., Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870 ; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 58. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb equals or slightly exceeds the distance between axilla 
