lamelle feebly unicarinate, 11 to 14 under the fourth toe. 
8. LyG@osoma. 
311 
Tail 
thick, as long as, or a little longer than, head and body. Brown or 
olive above, each scale with a dark brown spot; these spots some- 
times confluent into longitudinal lines; a more or less marked 
yellowish streak or band on each side, beginning on the canthus 
rostralis; sides sometimes blackish brown, white-dotted; lower 
surfaces yellowish white, uniform, or each scale with a black central 
dot; tail reddish in the young. 
nillim. millim. 
Total length ...... 137 Fore limb ........ 13 
Hea jen caine 15 Hind limb........ 20 
Width ofhead .... 11 Tail (reprodueed) .. 50 
BOGY sieves ergay’ 72 
India, Ceylon. 
a. Yg., very bad India. Gen.Hardwicke([P.]. (Type 
state. of Riopa hardwickit.) 
b, Yg. India. J. Wright, Esq. [P.]. (Lype 
of Mabouya elegans.) 
e. Ye. Patna W. C. Masters, Esq. [P.]. 
d. Ye. Belgaum Dr. Leith [P.]. 
ef. Yg. Matheran. Dr. Leith | P.}. 
g. Yg. Godavery valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. (P.]. 
h. Her Madras. — Boileau, Esq. [P. ]. 
2, Several spec. : Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
her. & ye. 
lads 8. Canara. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
Lm. Ad. & hey. Nilgherries. 
n-o, Yg. Nilambar. Col. Beddome [C. ]. 
p-r. Ad. & her. Golcondah hills. Col. Beddome [C. |. 
su, Ad. & her. Jeypore hills. Col. Beddome [C. |. 
v. Several spec. : Sevagherry hills. Col. Beddome [C. |. 
ad., her., & yg. 
w, Ad. Anamallays. Col. Beddome a 
a-y. Her. Tinnevelly. Col. Beddome | C. |. 
z, a. Many spec. : 8, India. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
ad., hgr., & yg. 
B. Ad. Ceylon. Col, Beddome [C.]. 
y-e. Ad. & hgr. Ceylon. W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 
113. Lygosoma guentheri. 
Riopa punctata, Gray, Cat. p. 96. 
? Seps scincoides, Cuv. R. A. 2nd ed, ii. p. 64, ; 
Riopa punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 882; Stohezka, Journ. 
‘As. Sov. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 183; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
mbes punctatus, part., Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 634. 
punctatus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 93. 
—— guentheri, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1879, p. 36. 
Body much elongate, limbs weak ; the distance between the end 
of the snout and the fore limb is contained about three times in the 
