Cover: Joyous...

The Primary Section sports meet of Sangamitta College, Borella was held at the Sugathadasa Stadium recently. Here Grade One students take part in their grade event and are all ready to send out air balloons.

The chief guest was Deputy Minister of Education, Mohanlal Grero. Principal, Thushari De Silva was present. Our staff photographer Chinthaka Kumarasinghe was at hand to snap these children while in the act.

Back cover: If stares can kill...

Our staff photographer Susantha Wijegunasekera captured this rather unusual picture of a Bodilima while on a field trip to Wilpattu.

Sri Lanka ranks as a great herpetologist's paradise in the world. That means it has a lot of reptiles and amphibians. Lyriocephalus scutatus is a species of lizard within the agamid family, the only species in the genus Lyriocephalus.

It is the largest agamid endemic to Sri Lanka and lives in dense wet zone forests. It is also called the Hump-nosed Lizard, Hump Snout Lizard or the Lyreshead Lizard. In Sinhala it is known as Kandukara Bodilima.