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11. Lygosoma pallidum. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 



Hinulia pallida, Gilnth. Zool. Ereh. ^ Terr., Rept. p. 12. 



Body elongate, limbs rather thin ; the distance between the end 

 of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and two thirds in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout much depressed, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Xostril pierced in a single nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 

 the rostral and with the frontal ; latter slightly longer than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the three 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; nine supraciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in length ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; 

 fifth and sixth upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening rather 

 small, subtriangular ; no auricular lobules. 32 smooth scales round 

 the middle of the body, subequal. A pair of enlarged prfcanals. 

 The adpressed limbs slightly overlap. Digits moderately elongate, 

 slender, compressed; subdigital lamellse strongly unicarinate, 24 

 under the fourth toe. Pale rufous-brown above, white inferiorly. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 135 Fore limb 20 



Head 15 Hind limb 28 



Width of head .... 10 Tail (reproduced) . . 60 



Body 60 



I^orth-western Australia. 



a. Ad. Nicol Bay. Mr. Duboulay [C.]. (Type.) 



12. Lygosoma minutum.* 

 Lygosoma (Hinulia) minuta, Meyer, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 132. 



Body moderately elongate, subquadrangular. Snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a broad suture 

 with the rostral and with the frontal ; praefrontals very small and 

 widely separated, frontal shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars, subequal in length ; seven supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and intei'parietal distinct, subequal in size ; parietals in 

 contact behind the interparietal ; enlarged nuchals present, passing 

 gradually into the vertebral scales ; fourth and fifth upper labials 

 largest and below the eye. Ear-opening moderate, suboval, much 

 smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 22 smooth scales 

 round the body ; dorsals largest. A pair of slightly enlarged praeanals. 

 Limbs moderately elongate, just meeting when adpressed. 15 



* Described from the type specimen (308) in the Dresden Museum, 



