8. LFGOSOMA. 263 



milliui. millini. 



Total length 70 Fore limb 8 



Head 7 Hind limb 10-5 



Body 22 Tail 47 



Sarawak. Borneo. 



51. Lygosoma laterale. 



Mocoa lateralis, Grai/, Cat. p. 83. 

 Scincus lateralis, Say, in Long's Exped. Ruck;/ Mount, ii. p. 324 ; 



Harlan, Jonrn. Ac. Philad. vi. 1828, p. 12; Ilulbr. N. Am. Herp, 



i. p. 71, pi. viii. 



unicolor, HarUm, Journ. Ac. Philad. v. 1825, pp. 156 & 221. 



Lygosoma lateralis, Dum. i^* Bibr. v. p. 71'.1; Ilulbr. op. cit. 2nd ed. 



ii. p. 133, pi. xix. 

 Oligosoma gemmingeri, C02X', Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 180. 



laterale. Cope, Check-List N. Am. Rept. p. 39. 



Lygosoma (Mocoa) lateralis, JBocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rejit, p. 446, 



pi. xxii. F. fig. 3. 



( ) gemmingerii, Bocourt, I. c. p. 449. 



Mocoa lateralis, Gilnth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept, p. 31. 



Body elongate ; 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 with 

 an undivided transparent disk. Xostril pierced in the nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, broadly in contact with 

 the rostral, and usually forming a narrow suture with the frontal ; 

 latter shield as long as or shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars, second largest; seven or eight supraciliarics ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct, latter usually smaller than former ; 

 parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal ; two to 

 four pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper labial below the centre of the eye. 

 Ear-opening oval, about as large as the eye-opening ; no auricular 

 lobules. 28 to 32 smooth scales round the middle of the body, laterals 

 smallest. A pair of large praeanals. The adpressed limbs fail to 

 meet. Digits subcylindrical, slightly compressed ; subdigital lamellae 

 smooth, 15 to 18 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to 

 twice the length of head and body. Yellowish or brown above, with 

 dark brown dots ; a dark brown lateral band, more or less distinctly 

 light-edged above ; flanks brown-dotted ; lower surfaces whitish, 



millini. millim. 



Total length 120 Fore limb 11 



Head 10 Hind limb 17 



Width of head .... 6 Tail 72 



Body 38 



Southern North America ; Mexico. 



H /. Ad. Georgia. 



