656 On the Temples and Ruins of Oomya [July ? 



a minute golden ring. The supraorbital scales being somewhat trans- 

 parent, the black colour of the eye gives them a blackish appearance. 

 Habit. — Pinang. 



Singapore, Java. 

 But two individuals were observed on the Great Hill of Pinang, one 

 by Sir W. Norris, the other by myself. The latter made its appearance 

 through a hole in the soft, moist mould beneath a group of Polycopo- 

 dium horsfiehlii. Above ground its movements were very quick, ser- 

 pent-like, apparently little assisted by the tiny limbs, The head of 

 the larger measured f inch, the trunk 2| inches in length. One 

 had but 4 toes on the anterior feet. In both the tail was reproduced, 

 which is also the case in a third, from Singapore, preserved in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Societv. 



On the Temples and Ruins of Oomga, by Capt. M. Kittoe, 6th N. I. 



As occasional notices of the nooks and corners of Hindoostan may 

 prove interesting to many readers of the Journal (notices that it must 

 be in the power of many of the Civil and Military servants of Govern- 

 ment and others to furnish and at little cost), I venture to set the 

 example by offering the following description of a locality once famous 

 in the province of Behar, called Oomga, situated within a mile of the 

 dawk Bungalow of Mudunpoor, and fourteen west of Sheerghatti, a 

 visit to which will ever repay the lover of the antique and picturesque 

 for his pains. 



The object which first strikes the traveller is the lofty conical tower 

 of a Temple perched on the westernmost and lower spur of a cluster of 

 hills to the south of the Benares road, the rock composing which is a 

 very coarse grained (porphyritic ?) granite affording materials for this 

 and all the other Temples (said to be 52 in number) of however small 

 dimensions. 



The height of the great Temple from the rock to the crest may be 

 about 60 feet, the extreme length from east to west is 68ft. 6in. and 

 the breadth 53. 



