8. LTGOSOMA. 269 



projecting lobiiles, 36 smooth scales round the middle of the body; 

 dorsals largest, laterals smallest. PriBanals scarcely enlarged. 

 The adpressed limbs hardly meet. Digits rather short and thick, 

 cylindrical ; subdigital lamclhc smooth, 16 under the fourth toe. 

 " Golden green, mottled with brown, with a narrow pale sinuous 

 streak on each side of the back." 



niillini. millim. 



Total length 132 Fore limb 19 



Head 15 Hind limb 25 



Width of head .... 10 Tail (reproduced) . . 62 



Body 55 



Hah. ? 



a. Ad. ? (Tj-pe.) 



60. Lygosoma lichenigerum. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 



Mocoa lichenigera, O'Shaitghn. Ami. (§• Maff. iY. M. (4) xiii. 1874, 

 p. 298. 



Habit lacertiform, rather stout ; the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half to once 

 and two thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 

 moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal 

 broader than long, forming a sxiture with the rostral and with the 

 frontal ; latter shield as long as frontoparietals and interparietal 

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

 supraoculars ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct, subequal ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 

 parietal ; a pair of nuchals ; fifth upper labial below the centre of 

 the eye. Ear-opening oval, nearly as large as the eje-opening, 

 without projecting lobules. 42 smooth scales round the middle of 

 the body, median dorsals a little larger than the others. Xo en- 

 larged praeauals. The adpressed limbs hardly meet. Digits rather 

 short and thick, cylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 17 or 18 

 under the fourth toe. Pale bronzy olive or golden above, dotted 

 with dark brown ; an undulated dark brown dorso-lateral line ; 

 sides variegated with brown ; lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 127 Fore limb 19 



Head 16 Hind limb 25 



Width of head 11 Tail (reproduced) . . 53 



Body 58 



Lord Howe Island, Australia. 



a. Ad. Lord Howe Island. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.]. (Type.) 



b. Ad. Probably same locaHty. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



