G4 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on 



6. Promops pamana, Miller. 



Forearm only 43 mm. in length. Third metacarpal 44*5. 

 Hah. Upper Purus River, Amazonia. Type from Hyn ta- 

 il ah am. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, No. 105528. 

 Described on a specimen without skull. 



IX. — Descriptions of Two new Lizards from Australia. 

 By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



AMONG the reptiles collected by Dr. R. Scharff on his visit 

 to Australia with the British Association and submitted to me 

 for identification, I have found examples of two unknown 

 Scincid lizards, which are here described. Dr. Scharff has 

 kindly allowed me to keep the types for the British Museum. 



Lygosoma scharff,. 



Section Siaphos. Habit lacertiform ; the distance between 

 the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and 

 a half in the distance between axilla and groin ; fore limb 

 tetradactyle, hind limb pentadactyle. Snout short, rather 

 pointed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal 

 nearly as long as broad, forming a broad suture with the 

 rostral ; no prefrontals ; frontal slightly longer than the 

 frontoparietals, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars, first smallest ; seven supraciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, longer than interparietal ; parietal s 

 forming a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals 

 and a pair of temporals border the paiietals ; fourth upper 

 labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening minute. 

 20 smooth scales round the middle of the body, dorsals 

 largest. Prseanals feebly enlarged. Fore limb reaching 

 between the ear and the eye ; fingers short, third slightly 

 lunger than second; hind limb nearly as long as the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb; toes 

 short, third and fourth equal, with 14 or 15 smooth lamellas 

 inferiorly. Dark brown above, with lighter dots, brownish 

 white beneath ; a blackish lateral streak on the posterior 

 part of the body and on the tail ; brown spots on the lower 

 lip. 



