124 LYGOSOMA FLORENSE. 



and Macklot ia Timor and Samao. These specimens though 

 also labelled Sc. melanopogon were separated from the spe- 

 cimens of L. florense. Now Dameril and Bibron in giving 

 the synonymy of Lygosoma melanopogon quote besides »Scin- 

 cus naevius Peron , Mus. de Paris" also »Sc. melanopogon 

 Muller, Mus. de Leyde" and »Sc. eri/throlamusM.iiWeY,^üs. 

 de Leyde". So there can be little doubt that already Sam. 

 Muller noted the difference between two narrowly related 

 Lygosoma-s'pecies viz. L. florense and L. variegatum found 

 side by side in the Timor-group and named them Scincus 

 melanopogon and Sc. erythrolamus. As however he never 

 gave a description or a figure of these species the names 

 he gave them can only be retained in the synonymy with 

 the addition »in Museo". 



As far as I know of, Lygosoma Meyeri Doria does not 

 occur in the islands of the Timor group but is restricted 

 to Papuasia; as the Leyden Museum does not possess any 

 specimen of this species I cannot compare it with speci- 

 m.ens of the other two species, still Doria's description is 

 so clear that there can be no doubt that it must be re- 

 garded as a distinct species, differing from L. variegatum 

 a. o. by having only one loreal shield behind the nasal , 

 in stead of the two superposed loreals of the latter species. 

 I think it better to call this species L. Meyeri Doria than 

 to retain the old name of L. melanopogon D. B. 



It is very curious that though L. variegatum is widely 

 distributed over the islands of Papuasia (we have in our 

 collections specimens from the Aroe islands, from Bataute, 

 Salawatti, Guebeh and Mefoor), and was in M tiller's time 

 rather common on Timor; still there is now not one spe- 

 cimen of this species in Dr. ten Kate's collection. 



10. Lygosoma smaragdinum Less. 



One young specimen from Rotti. The collections of the 

 Leyden Museum contain three specimens of this species 

 collected by Muller and Macklot in Timor. 



11. Lygosoma cyanurum Less. 



Three specimens from Groot-Bastaard. 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseum, "Vol. X."VI. 



