LYGOSOMA 233 



Borneo, and from Java, Celebes, Malacca, Siam, Burma, and 

 Hongkong. The type locality is Hongkong, the type having 

 been collected by Sir J. Bowring. 



Genus LYGOSOMA Gray 



Lygosoma Gray, Zool. Journ. 3 (1828) 228; Cat. Liz. (1845) 85. 

 Elania Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 80. 



Lygosoma sec. Lygosoma Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 

 224. 



Legs short or rudimentary; no supranasals present; prefron- 

 tals small and widely separated; frontal broader than supra- 

 ocular region ; lower eyelid scaly ; ear opening small or wanting. 



Only a single species of this genus has been discovered in 

 Philippine territory. This is Lygosoma chalcides (Linnaeus). 

 It is also known in Sumatra and Java, and on the southeastern 

 part of the Asiatic Continent. It appears that it has not as 

 yet been reported from Borneo. 



LYGOSOMA CHALCIDES (Linnaeus) 



Lacerta chalcides LlNN^us, Syst. Nat. 1 (1766) 369. 



Anguis quadrupes LlNN^us, Syst. Nat. 1 (1776) 390. 



Lacerta serpens Bloch, Beschaft. Ges. Naturf. Freunde 2 (1776) 28, 



pL 2. 

 Scincus brachypus Schneider, Hist. Amph. 2 (1801) 192. 

 Lygosoma serpens Gray, ZooL Journ. 3 (1828) 228. 

 Lygosoma aureta Gray, Grif. A. K. IX Syn. 72. 

 Lygosoma abdom,inalis Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 (1839) 332. 

 Lygosoma brachypoda Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 5 (1839) 721. 

 Lygosoma chalcides Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. (1847) 49; Boulenger, 



Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 340; de Rooij, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 



1 (1915) 225;, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL Harvard ColL 44 



(1912) 95. 

 Lygosoma (Lygosoma) chalcides Boettger, Abh. u. Ber. Konig Zool. 



u. Anth. Ethnog. Mus. Dresden 7 (1894-1895) 1. 

 Eumeces chalcides Gunther, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 90. 



Description of species, — (From Boulenger.) "Body much 

 elongate, limbs very weak; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained four or five times in the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in the centre of the nasal; no 

 supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture 

 with the rostral and with the frontal; latter shield small, a 

 little broader than the supraocular region, in contact with the 

 first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars; seven supra- 

 ciliaries; frontoparietal single, large; interparietal distinct; 



