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82. Lygosoma fuscum (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Hcieropus ftiscus^ Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. V 1839, p. 759. 

 Lygosoma fuscum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 283 (s. syn.). 

 Lygosoma atrogitlarc^ Douglas Ogilby, Rec. Austr. Mas. I 1890, p. 94. 

 Liolepisma fuscum^ Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXIII 1898, p. 358. 

 Leiolepisma fusciim^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1 91 2, p. 92- 



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

 opening oval, as large as the palpebral disk or a little larger, 

 with one or two lobules or a great many, all round its border, 



Fig. 87. Lygosoma fusaiin (D. B.). 



obtuse or pointed. Nostril in the nasal ; no supranasals ; fronto- 

 nasal more broad than long, forming a suture with the rostral 

 and often with the frontal ; latter as long as the frontoparietal 

 or a little shorter, in contact with the two anterior supra- 

 oculars; four supraoculars; seven to nine supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietal single; interparietal small, but distinct; parietals in 

 contact; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals; four or 

 five upper labials before the subocular. Body with 32 — 38 

 scales round the middle, dorsals and laterals sometimes smooth, 



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