&, Lygosoma. ; 319 
without lobules. 28 scales round the body; dorsals finely striated 
and bicarinate. Preanals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs 
meet. Subdigital lamelle smooth, 17 under the fourth toe. Tail 
a little longer than head and body. ‘“ Brown, head paler.” 
millim. illim. 
Total length ...... 76 Fore limb ........ 7 
Head ose es 7 Hind limb........ 11 
Width of head .... 5 Tal. sass endo tan 41 
Body? ov. eoy ce eee 28 
Southern China. 
a. Bad state. China. ‘J. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 
124. Lygosoma pellopleurum. 
Lygosaurus pellopleurus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 496. 
Body elongate ; general form similar to that of Z. laterale. Snout 
rather pointed. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; 
no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 
the rostral and with the frontal ; four supraoculars; frontoparietals 
and interparietal distinct. Ear-opening pyriform, without pro- 
jecting scales on its borders. 24 scales round the body; dorsals 
tricarinate. Limbs slender; inner toe quite short, fourth longest. 
Tail cyclotetragonal at the base, longer than head and body. Light 
brown above, with four longitudinal rows of minute black spots, 
extending a considerable distance upon the tail; a lateral dark band, 
commencing behind the eye; lower surfaces white; tail brown- 
spotted inferiorly. 
Total length 90 millim., tail 50. 
Oho Sima, Loo Choo Islands. 
125. Lygosoma taprobanense. 
Eumeces taprobanensis, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. ii. p. 21. 
—— taprobanensis, part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 89, pl. xiii. 
fig. B. 
Hinulie taprobanensis, part., Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 56. 
Body rather elongate, limbs short; the distance between the end 
of the snout and the fore limb is contained about once and a half 
in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout very short, 
obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a 
single nasal ; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming 
a broad suture with the rostral, and usually in contact posteriorly 
with the anterior angle of the frontal; latter shield considerably 
longer than the frontoparietals, in contact with the two anterior 
supraoculars ; four supraoculars; eight or nine supraciliaries; fronto- 
parietals distinct, about as large as the interparietal; parietals 
