310 SCINCIDZ. 
millim muillim 
Total length ...... 134 Fore limb ........ 10 
Head io. ccceeen 11 Hind limb........ 14 
Width of head .... 7:5 Tail (reproduced) .. 68 
Body va uaa vances 55 
Southern and Central India, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Malay 
Peninsula. 
a-d. Ad., her, &yg., Madras. T. C. Jerdon Esq. [P.]. 
dry. (Types.) 
e. Ad. Denkanicottah hills, Col. Beddome [C.]. 
Jt, g-m. Ad. & hgr.  Godavery valley. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
n. Ad. Bengal. W. ©. Masters, Esq. [P.]. 
o-g. Ad. & hgr. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 
112. Lygosoma punctatum. 
Mabouya elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 65. 
Riopa hardwickii, Gray, 1. c. p. 96. 
Lacerta punctata, Linn. ‘8. N. i. p. 369. 
Stellio punctatus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 58. 
Lacerta interpunctata, Gmel. S. N. p. 1075. 
Scincus punctatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii, p. 197. 
pilineatus, Daud, Rept. iv. p. 256. 
Eumeces punctatus, Wiegm. Herp, Mex. p. 36; Peters, Sitzb. Ges. 
Naturf. Fr. 1879, p. 35, 
punctatus, part., Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 634; Gravenh. N. Acta 
Ae. Ces.-Leop. xxiii. i. 1851, p. 359, pl. xxxviii. 
Riopa hardwickti, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii, 1858, p. 478; 
Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 182, pl. v. fig. 5; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 63. 
Eumeces hardwickii, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 92. 
Euprepes punctatus, Steendachn. Novara, Rept. p. 44. 
Body elongate, limbs weak ; the distance between the end of the 
snout and the fore limb is contained twice to twice and a half in 
the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Supranasals distinct, in 
' contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal much broader than long, 
forming a suture with the frontal; praefrontals small ; frontal about 
as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 
with the first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars ; usuall 
seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually a little larger 
than interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 
parietal; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 
parietals; fifth upper labial below the eye. LEar-opening small, 
oval, with one or two small lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 scales 
round the middle of the body, all smooth, subequal. Marginal 
preanals not or scarcely enlarged. The fore limb, when stretched 
forwards, reaches a little beyond the ear; the length of the hind 
limb is more than one third of the distance between axilla and groin. 
Digits feebly compressed ; fourth toe longer than third ; subdigital 
