698 G. A. BOULENGER 



"lì. Lygosoma loriae, sp. n. (Pi. VII, tig. 1). — Section llinulia. 

 Body elongate, limbs short; tiie distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limi) is contained once and two thirds to 

 once and three fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a 

 single nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, for- 

 ming a suture with the rostral ; praefrontals meeting with their 

 inner angles, or narrowly separated from each other; frontal as 

 long as or a little shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four su- 

 praoculars; eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct, subequal in length; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal; no enhtrged nuchals, three or four scales in 

 contact with each parietal ; fifth upper labial below the centre 

 of the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening; no 

 auricular lobules. 30 or iJS smooth scales round the body, laterals 

 smallest , the two vertebral series enlarged. Adpressed limbs 

 widely separated. Digits short , feebly compressed ; subdigitai 

 lamellae smooth, divided, 16 or 17 under the fourth toe. Tail 

 very thick. Blackish brown above, freckled and vermiculate \\ith 

 yellowish brown; yellowish beneath, throat and sides spotted 

 with dark brown. 



Total length 14.3 millim. 



Head 12 



Width of head 



Body 54 



Fore limb 13 



Hind limb 1!» » 



Tail (i-L-produccd; 77 



Three specimens from Moroka. 



"l"!. Lygosoma variegatum, Ptrs. — Baveri. 



23. Lygosoma jobiense, Meyer. — Bara Bara, Vikaiku, Baveri, 

 Moroka. 



24. Lygosoma annectens , sj). n. (Pi. VII, fig. 2). — ('onnecting 

 the sectìoììii IJinulia and Olomnrus. Habit lacertifonn; the distance 

 between the enil of the snout and the fore limb nearly eijuals 



