320 SCINCIDE. 
forming a suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; usually, 
fifth labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening small, sub- 
oval, with two or three very small, more or less indistinct, projecting 
lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 smooth equal scales round the middle 
of the body. Praanals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs fail to 
meet. Digits short, cylindrical; subdigital lamelle smooth or 
tubercular, 13 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, once and a 
half the length of head and body. Yellowish or reddish brown 
above, usually with a paler brown dorso-lateral band and longitu- 
dinal series of blackish dots; sides dark brown or blackish, white- 
dotted; lower surfaces yellowish ; throat, in males, bluish grey, 
with or without white dots. 
millim millim 
Total length ...... 141 Fore limb ........ 15 
GAGs estes a a te 13 Hind limb........ 21 
Width of head .... 85 PAL: ici eieecsalata-ana 83 
Body cca oes ie os 45 
Ceylon 
a. Ad. Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. (One of the types.) 
b-d. Ad. Ceylon. . 
e-t, Ad. & her. Centr. Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.]. 
126. Lygosoma, fallax. 
Lygosoma fallax, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 184. 
Eumeces taprobanensis, part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 89. 
Hinulia 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 much broader than long, forming a 
broad suture with the rostral; prefrontals usually forming a median 
suture; frontal as long as or shorter than the frontoparietal, in con- 
tact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars ; eight or 
nine supraciliaries ; frontoparietals united into a single shield, much 
longer than the interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind the 
interparietal; no nuchals; usually, fitth labial below the centre of 
the eye. Ear-opening small, roundish, with two very small pro- 
jecting lobules anteriorly. 26 smooth, equal scales round the middle 
of the body. Praanals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs fail to 
meet, or just meet. Digits short, cylindrical; subdigital lamella 
smooth or tubercular, 16 to 18 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, 
once and one third to once and two thirds the length of head and 
body. Pale reddish brown above, uniform or with darker dots, and 
with a more or less distinct darker and a lighter dorso-lateral band; 
lower surfaces yellowish. Throat and sides of head and neck, in 
males, bluish black, dotted with white. 
