8. LTGOSOMA. 285 



14, Lygosoma elegantiilum. 



Hinulia striatula (non Steind.), part., Giinth. Zool. Ereb. ^- Ten-., 



Rept. p. 11. 

 Lygosoma (Iliuulia) elegantiilum, Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus, 



Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 344. 



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

 of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fifths to 

 twice in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. 

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

 nasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with the 

 rostral and with the frontal : latter as long as or a little shorter than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; eight, rarely seven or 

 nine, supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, sub- 

 equal in length ; parictals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 

 three or four pairs of nuehals ; fifth upper labial below the centre 

 of the eye. Ear-opening suboval, smaller than the eye-opening ; 

 no auricular lobules. 28, rarely 2 (!, smooth scales round the body ; 

 laterals smallest, dorsals, especially the two vertebral series, largest. 

 A pair of large prseanals. The adpressed limbs fail to meet. Digits 

 short, feebly compressed ; subdigital lamellae smooth, divided, 16 to 

 20 under the fourth toe. Tail very thick, once and one third or 

 once and a half the length of head and body. Brown above, uni- 

 form or with small irregular dark brown spots, often forming trans- 

 verse series on the nape ; lips with blackish spots or vertical bars ; 

 lower surfaces yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 192 Fore limb 16 



Head 15 Hind limb 24 



Width of head .... 11 Tail 112 



Body 65 



Cape York, islands of Torres Straits, New Guinea. 



fl. Ad. Fly River. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C. 



b-e,f-h. Ad. Murray Island. Rev.. 8. Macfarlane [C.^ 



i-k. Ad. Islands of Torres Straits. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.j 



U-m. Ad. Sunday Island (?). J. B. Jidies, Esq. [P.J, 



15. Lygosoma richardsonii. 



Hinulia ricliardsouii, Gray, Cat. p. 271. 

 Hinulia richardsonii, Gray, Zool. Ereb. Sf Terr., Rept. pi. xi. fig. 2, 



Body elongate, limbs short ; 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 short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal ; 

 frontonasal a little broader than long, forming a narrow suture with 



