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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 649 Fai (near Muok Lek, elevation 900 feet); one was given me as having been caught in Bangkok; and there were nine in the store of the Siamese Museum, supposed to have been collected by the late Dr. E. Haase at Chantaboon. Description. On comparing these latter specimens with the description of this species in the British Museum Catalogue, these points were noted:-1st, in some individuals the fifth and sixth labials appear welded into one large shield beneath the eye. 2nd, the number of scales round the body appears large, 40 to 50. 3rd, the hind limb when adpressed is longer, reaching from just in front of the axilla to tbe shoulder; in the Bangkok specimen it also reaches the shoulder. Colour (in spirit). Brown or olive-brown above, with more or less distinct darker and lighter spots, sometimes forming two irregular dorsal series of small black spots ; a very dark brown lateral line, extending from the nostrils, through the eye, above the ear, and on to the tip of the (unreproduced) tail ; this dark line is more or less spotted with white, and edged below (sometimes also above narrowly) with white, and on tbe tail it is vandyked ; flanks dark brown, spotted with white; lower surfaces pale yellow or white. Size. Total length 171 mm. (snt. to vnt. 65 ; tail 106). Hab. Eastern Himalayas (Sikhim), Northern Bengal, Assam, Burma, Andaman Islands, Siam, Malay Peninsula. 81. LYGOSOMA OLIVACEUM (Gray). Lygosoma olivaceum, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 251 ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 874. Recorded from Singapore, Penang, and the Peninsula. Hab. Tenasserim, Nicobars, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java Borneo, Philippines. 82. LYGOSOMA ATROCOSTATUM (Lesson). Mabouya jerdoniana, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 172. Lygosoma jerdonianum, Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 300. Lygosoma atrocostatum, Blgr. op. cit. p. 295. The type of Jerdon's Skink was caught by Stoliczka on the little rocky island of Pulo Tikus Kechil, which lies off the north-east coast of Penang. I twice visited the island to try to obtain another specimen. On the first occasion ,in Nov. 1896, not a skink was seen, but on the second, in April 1898, after our whole party had hunted unsuccessfully all through the middle of the day, at about 4*30 p.m., as we were returning to our boat, I saw a skink on a granite boulder on the beach, which I shot, aud found it agreed completely with Stoliczka's description. The only other reptiles we obtained on the island were the common House Geckoes, Gehyra mutilata and Hemidactylus frenatus. Colour (in life). Above, olive-green and bronze, beautifully mingled. Below, throat pale lilac-grey, body and limbs orange, tail greenish yellow. |