248 sciNciD^. 



laterals smallest. A pair of large pra^anals. The hind limb reaches 

 the wrist or the elbow. Digits moderately elongate, compressed ; 

 subdigital lamellae smooth or obtusely keeled, 18 to 27 under the 

 fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. 

 Brown above ; back uniform or with small scattered blackish spots 

 or irregular, rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; sides finely mottled 

 with dark brown ; three to five large blackish spots on each side, 

 the anterior above the ear, the third above the shoulder ; a more or 

 less distinct blackish streak through the eye ; lower surfaces yel- 

 lowish ; throat sometimes with brown longitudinal streaks, 



millim. millim. 



Total length 226 Fore limb 28 



Head 22 Hind limb 4-1: 



Width of head 15 Tail 130 



Body 74 



Papuasia, New Ireland. 



a-h. Ad. Ansus, Jobi. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 



(As typical of Eumeces ariievms.) 

 c. Ad. Fly Eiver. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 



rf-e. Ad. Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



(Types oi Hinulia megaspila.) 



32. Lygosoma acutum. 



Lygosoma (Hinulia) acutum, Peters, Mon. Bcrl. Ac. 18G4, p. 54. 



Habit lacertiform, slender ; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limb equals the distance between axilla and 

 groin. Snout very long, pointed. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril 

 pierced in the middle of a rather large nasal ; no supranasals ; two 

 superposed anterior loreals ; frontonasal scarcely broader than long, 

 forming a broad straight suture with the rostral ; prgefrontals form- 

 ing a median suture ; frontal kite-shaped, a little shorter than the 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the three 

 anterior supraoculars ; six supraoculars, first longest, third broadest ; 

 supraciliaries numerous, and, with the exception of the anterior, 

 very small ; frontoparietals coalesced into a single shield : inter- 

 parietal distinct, similar in shape to but smaDer than the frontal; 

 parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal ; no nuchals ; 

 nine or ten upper labials, sixth and seventh or seventh and eighth 

 below the eye, separated from the orbit by small scales. Ear- 

 opening vertically elliptic, much smaller than the eye-opening, with- 

 out lobules. 26 scales round the middle of the body, all perfectly 

 smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest ; on the nape, the scales of 

 the two median series are transversely dilated. Two enlarged prae- 

 anals. The adpressed hind limb reaches the shoulder. Digits long 

 and slender, compressed, especially in their distal portion ; fourth 

 toe much longer than third ; subdigital lamelkc smooth, 32 under the 

 fourth toe. Tail once and two thirds the length of head and body. 



