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slender; the distance between the tip of the snout and the 

 fore limb is contained one time and one fifth in the distance 

 between axilla and groin ; 28 smooth scales round the middle, 

 the two vertebral series largest, laterals small; praeanals 

 / enlarged. Tail nearly one time and a half the length of head 

 and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the axilla; 

 digits compressed distally, fourth toe with 25 smooth lamellae 

 below. 



Pale reddish-brown above, with a gree.nish-white vertebral 

 stripe, beginning at the tip of the snout, bordered on each 

 side by a broad black stripe ; flanks pale olive, with or without 

 black dots; Hmbs black-spotted. Lower parts greenish-white. 

 Length of head and body 42 mm. ; tail 56 mm. 



Habitat: Mentawei Islands (Sipora); Borneo (Baram 

 district!). — Malacca (500 and 2300 feet). 



70. Lygosoma noctua (Lesson). 



Scincus noctua^ Lesson, Voy. Coquille Zool. II 1830, p. 48 pi. Ill fig. 4. 



Lygosoma noctua^ Boulengev, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 256 (s. syn.). 



Leiolepisma noctua^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 191 2, 



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Snout pointed ; lower eyelid with a transparent disk ; ear- 

 opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril 

 in the nasal ; no supranasals ; frontonasal as long as broad, in 

 contact with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter as long 

 as frontoparietal and interparietal together, or a little shorter, 

 in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 

 first and last longest; eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals as 

 long as the interparietal ; parietals in contact ; two or three 

 pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 

 24 — 26 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals largest; the 

 distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is 

 ^ contained one time and one fourth to one time and three fifths in 

 / the distance between axilla and groin ; praeanals enlarged. 

 Tail slightly longer than head and body. Limbs strong, over- 

 lapping when adpressed ; digits compressed distally, fourth toe 

 with 19 — 22 smooth lamellae below. 



Golden brown above; on the occiput a white, dark-edged 

 spot, continuous with a light vertebral stripe, edged on each 

 side with dark brown spots; a brown lateral band, formed by 

 large spots, dotted with light; lips with dark brown spots. 



