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toes are similar but smaller, and there are nineteen femoral pores on each side. 

 A note by the captor remarks : " lu lite the colors change rapidly from green to 

 green with blue-grey bands," which raises the question whether it is right to 

 state that the male is banded and the female uniform in color. In one case 

 there are fourteen femoral pores on one side and fifteen on the other ; in an- 

 other there are twelve on one side and fourteen on the other. 



Lygosoma tenue Bocl. 



Tiliqua tenuis Gray. 



Scales in twenty-eight rows around the body. 

 Cooktown ; Mr. Olive. 



Lygosoma noctua P. D. 



Scincus noctua Less. 

 Upolu, Samoa; Dr. Woodworth. 



Lygosoma fuscum Boul. 

 Heteropus fiiscus D. B. 



The present variety was collected by Mr. Olive near Cooktown. It has a 

 dark band from the snout through the eye to the shoulders, which is white- 

 edged and longer in the young. On some large specimens the line between 

 the eye and shoulder is very black, and is broken by narrow streaks of white 

 into several blotches. In cases there are white specks scattered over the 

 flanks. Commonly the tail is lighter in color than the body and more red; it 

 is thick at the base and tapers somewhat abruptly. Another variety taken at 

 " Cairns " by Dr. A. G. Mayer is dark olive, and has thirty- four rows of scales 

 around the body, instead of thirty-six as in the first form. 



Lygosoma seratum, sp. nov. 



Lacertiform ; the distance from the end of the snout to the arm is one-third 

 of the length from snout to vent. Head moderate, rather pointed at the snout, 

 subquadrangular in transsection ; snout short, one and one-half times the length 

 of the eye, blunt. Lower eyelid with a large undivided transparent disk, larger 

 than the earopening. Nostril pierced in a single nasal. Frontonasal wider than 

 long, broadly in contact with the rostral, narrowly in contact with the frontal. 

 No supranasal. Frontal in contact with two supraorbitals, shorter than the 

 frontoparietal. Prefrontals not in contact, larger than the interparietal. Inter- 

 parietal small, subtriangular, edges convex. Parietals forming a suture. A 



