3812 SCINCID.E. 
distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Supranasals present, 
in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal much broader than long, 
forming a suture with the frontal; prefrontals small and widely 
separated; frontal usually as long as or a little longer than 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 
first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars; six to eight 
supraciliaries, first and last largest; frontoparietals distinct, 
usually larger than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture 
behind the interparietal; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 
border the parietals; usually, fifth upper labial below the eye. 
Ear-opening small, roundish or oval. 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 the ear or not quite so far; the length of the hind limb is 
contained four times or a little more in the distance between axilla 
and groin. Digits feebly compressed ; fourth toe longer than third ; 
subdigital lamelle feebly unicarinate, 13 or 14 under the fourth 
toe. Tail thick, considerably longer than head and body. Brownish 
or yellowish olive above, each scale with a black spot; these spots 
sometimes confluent into longitudinal lines; sometimes a more or 
less distinct light dorso-lateral band; the black spots usually larger 
on the sides, and sometimes intermixed with white ones; lower — 
surfaces yellowish white, usually with a black dot on each scale. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 250 Fore limb ........ 12 
GAG io cesta seas ave 15 Hind limb........ 17 
Width of head .... 10 Wal ss scessersi ass eeatoes 145 
BOQY! 5 ccoaiesckcute as 90 
Central and Southern India. 
a. Ad. Hyderabad. Dr. Hamilton [P.]. 
b-c, Ad. Bombay. Dr. Leith [P.]. 
d-e. Ad. Matheran, Dr. Leith [P.]. 
f. Ad. Belgaum. Dr. Leith [P.}. 
g-t. Ad. & yg. S. Canara Ghats. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
k. Ad. 8. India. Col. Beddome fet 
a2 Ad. India. W. Elliott, Esq. [P.]. 
m. Ad. India. A, Everett, Esq. Loy. 
n. Ad. India, 
114. Lygosoma cyanellum. 
Riopa anguina, part., Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 27; 
Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 159. 
—— cyanella, Stoliceka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 130, 
pl. v. fig. 3; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 65. 
Very closely allied to L. anguinum, but the limbs a little longer. 
The fore limb reaches slightly beyond the ear, and the length of the 
