250 8CINCID.E. 



34. Lygosoina smaragdinum. 



Keaeuxia siuaragdLna, Gray, Cat. p. 79. 

 Scincus smaragdinus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool, ii, p. 43, pi. iii. 

 tig. 1 ; hicldey. Abbiid. p. 3:3, pi. xi. 



viridipuuctus. Lesson, I. c. p. 44, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



coelestiuus, Guer. Icon. Ii. A., Rept. pi. xv. fig. 2. 



Lygosoma smaragdiiia, Dum. et liibr. v. p. 738. 



■ (Iliuulia) smaragdinum, var. viridifiiscum, Peters, Mon. Berl. 



Ac. 1872, p. 770. 



(^Keneuxia) smaragdiuum, Pete?-s »5j- Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 



xiii. 1878, p. 345. 



Habit lacertiform. ; the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained once and one fifth to once and one third in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout long, pointed, much 

 depressed. Lower eyelid scaly. Nasals widely separated, usually 

 divided into nasal and postnasal, not or but slightly deeper than the 

 anterior loreal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal as long as broad or 

 slightly broader than long, its anterior, convex border forming a 

 broad suture with the rostral ; the frontonasal fre(|uently forming a 

 suture with the frontal ; latter large, as long as or a little longer than 

 the frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the first, 

 second, and third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, subequal or first 

 and fourth longest ; supraciliarics numerous, all, with the exception 

 of the first two, very small ; frontoparietals and interparietal dis- 

 tinct, latter much smaller than former ; parietals forming a suture 

 behind the interparietal ; one to three pairs of nuchals ; a large 

 temporal, in contact with the outer border of the parietal ; five 

 labials anterior to the suboculars. Ear-opening small, usually with 

 one or two small projecting rounded lobules on its anterior border. 

 22 or 24 scales round the middle of the body (26 in the var. viridi- 

 fuscum) ; dorsals largest, especially the two median series ; all 

 smooth, or dorsals feebly quadricarinate. Praeanal scales not en- 

 larged. The hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb, or nearly as far as the axil. Digits slender, with strong 

 sharp claws, the basal phalanges cyclotetragonal, the distal strongly 

 compressed ; subdigital lamelte smooth, 28 to 35 under the fourth 

 toe. Heel with an enlarged suboval scale. Tail once and one 

 third to once and a half the length of head and body. Green, olive, 

 or brown above, with or without darker and lighter spots or black 

 margins to the scales ; sometimes a more or less distinct light lateral 

 band. Lower surfaces yellowish or pale green. 



inillim. millim. 



Total length 240 Fore limb 37 



Head 26 Hind limb 45 



Width of head .... 17 Tail 143 



Body 77 



Indian Archipelago, Papuasia, Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands. 



