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pair of broad nuchals. A large temporal shield in contact with each parietal. 

 Lower labials six. Anterior submental very broad, with a blunt angle in front, 

 followed by a pair of large shields forming a suture behind it, this pair followed 

 by another pair separated by a small shiBld, and these again by a third pair 

 separated by three scales. Labials five or six, eye over the third or the fourth, 

 which is much elongated. Supraorbitals four, second largest, first shortest and 

 smallest. Postnasal short, oblique. Loreal comparatively large. Earopening 

 smaller than the eye, elongate, hidden by sharp lobules from the upper side 

 and from the lower. Scales smooth, in twenty-two rows around the body, 

 largest on the back, smallest on the flank. In six or seven of the anterior 

 series the subcaudal scales are small, behind these there is a median series 

 of much broader ones. Limbs moderate, hardly meeting when adpressed ; an- 

 terior with four digits, posterior with five. Fourth toe with about eighteen 

 subdigital lamellae. Tail one and three-fifths times the length of head and 

 body. 



Light bronzed olive on back and sides, lustrous whitish to light olivaceous 

 below: each scale of back and sides with several darker streaks, resembling 

 keels in effect, spreading into larger blotches on the tail ; lighter patches on 

 scales of the sides of the tail. Frecklings or small spots on lips, sides of throat 

 and belly, and below the pelvic region and the tail. Limbs freckled with 

 white. 



Near Cooktown ; Mr. Olive. 



This species is allied to L. IcBve Oudem., 1894 : it differs in labials, in num- 

 ber of rows of scales, and in the large eye-disk. 



Lygosoma cyanurum Boul. 



Scineus cyanurus Less. 

 Taviuni Island, Fiji ; Dr. W. McM. Woodworth. 



Lygosoma samoense Boul. 



Eumeces samoensis DuM. 



An individual taken on Viti Le.vu, Fiji, by Dr. Mayer may represent a 

 variety of this species, since it possesses but twenty-eight rows of scales around 

 the body, while the species is characterized by thirty or more. Other speci- 

 mens collected by Dr. Woodworth on Suva have thirty-two rows. 



Lygosoma atromaculatum, sp. nov. 



Form similar to that of L. isolepis Boul. Body elongate, slightly depressed ; 

 limbs short, rather weak, not meeting by the length of the arm when adpressed ; 

 feet pentadactyl ; tail one and one-half times as long as head and body, thick, 



