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especially seem very large, much larger than any which I saw 

 or preserved from the Moluccas or Papua in 1905-1907. Wer- 

 ner (Zool. Anz., 21, 1898, p. 553) described Lygosoma (Emoa) 

 impar from Mioko and Ralum, in the once German Bismarck 

 Archipelago. This species is supposed to differ from E. cyanurum, 

 in that the midvertebral stripe is on a single row of scales 

 instead of on parts of two rows. The latter condition obtains in 

 our specimens from New Guinea, as well as from the Solomons, 

 and E. mivarti has the stripe similarly situated. 



Leiolepisma anolis (Boulenger) 



Lipinia anolis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), 12, 1883, p. 161. 

 Lygosoma anolis Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 3, 1887, p. 253. 



A most curious pallid wraith-like seine, one of the very char- 

 acteristic species of the Solomons, and represented by one ex- 

 ample from Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz; four from Ugi; two 

 from Auki, Malaita; and twelve from Wainone Bay, San 

 Cristobal. The first three localities establish new records. 



Leiolepisma noctua (Lesson) 



Scincus noctua Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., 2, 1830, p. 48, pi. 3, fig. 4. 

 Lygosoma noctua Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 3, 1887, p. 256. 



Previously known to range widely in Polynesia, to occur also 

 in Fiji and in Papua, this beautiful little lizard has never been 

 taken in the Solomon Islands before. Dr. Mann took a single 

 individual at Rubiana Lagoon in New Georgia. There are two 

 specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, recently 

 received from the Rev. J. Annand at Tangoa, Espiritu Santo 

 Island, in the New Hebrides, another new locality. Thus 

 the species ranges widely through Melanesia as well as Poly- 

 nesia. A curious fact well worthy of note is that, unlike most 



