360 SCINCID.E. 
B. Two or three large preanals. 
1. Upper head-shields smooth. 
Dorsal scales keeled ...........20..5+ 4, berdmorit, p. 362. 
Scales all smooth ................45 5. yunnanensis, p. 362. 
2. Upper head-shields rugose or striated. 
Dorsal scales keeled, not mucronate, ven- 
trals smooth ...... 0... 0. ee eee ee 6. sinicus, p. 362. 
Dorsal scales strongly keeled, ending in 
a point; subdigital lamelle smooth .. 7. cochinchinensis, p. 363. 
Dorsal scales strongly keeled, spinose, 
ventrals usually keeled; subdigital la- 
melle keeled ......... ee 8. -grayi, p. 864. 
1. Tropidophorus leucospilus. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) leucospilos, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, p. 684. 
Head-shields perfectly smooth ; a single frontonasal, much broader 
than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal little 
longer than the frontoparietal, which is single; four supraoculars, 
first longest; eleven supraciliaries; parictals forming a suture 
behind the interparietal; fourth to sixth upper labials below the 
orbit, from which they are separated by a series of scales ; an azygos 
postmental. Tympanum smaller than the eye-opening. Scales all 
perfectly smooth, dorsals largest, 830 round the middle of the body. 
A pair of enlarged preanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist. Sub- 
digital lamelle smooth. Tail a little longer than head and body, 
compressed. Brown above, variegated with darker, and with bluish- 
white spots arranged in longitudinal and transverse series; base of 
arm, axilla, and lower surfaces uniform yellowish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length...... 118 Fore limb.......... 15 
Head secveseess 12 Hind limb ........ 21 
Width ofhead.... 8 PAU ois s | wivire area ss 63 
Bod Wioieee ores gens 43 
Philippines. 
pee Luzon. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
2. Tropidophorus beccarii. 
Amphixestus beccarii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p.574, and Ann. 
Mus. Genova, iii. 1872, p. 33, pl. iv. fig. 3. 
Upper head-shields smooth; a single frontonasal, a little broader 
than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal as long as 
or a little longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together ; 
five supraoculars, first longest, fifth very small; six or seven supra- 
ciliaries anterior to the fourth supraocular, which borders the eye ; 
frontoparietals shorter than the interparietal, behind which the 
