270 SCINCID^. 



61. Lygosoina uigrofasciolatum. 



Lygosoma (Mocoa) nigrofasciolatuiii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G9, 

 p. 4-35 ; BoisMje, Join. Sc. Lisb. viii. 1881, p. 131. 



arborum, Bavaij, Cat. liepf. N. Calcd. p. 19. 



deplanchei («(/«i)'«m//), Bocage,J(jrn. Sc. Lish. iv. 1873, p. 229. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance bet-wccn tlie cud of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained once and one third to once and tliree fifths 

 in the distance between axilla and groin. (Snout rather long, obtusely 

 pointed. Lower eyelid witli an undivided transparent disk. Nostril 

 pierced between a nasal and a postnasal, bordered inferiorly by the 

 first labial ; no supranasal ; frontpnasal nearly as long as broad, 

 narrowly in contact with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter 

 shield as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; nine supra- 

 ciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct ; interparietal distinct, as long as 

 or a little shorter than the latter ; parietal s forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border 

 the parietals ; sixth upper labial largest and below the eye. Ear- 

 opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening, with one or two 

 small obtuse projecting lobules. 36 to 38 scales round the middle 

 of the body, subequal, smooth, or dorsals feebly striated. Js'o 

 enlarged prseanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow. 

 Digits elongate, subcylindrical, compressed distally ; subdigital 

 lamellae smooth, 29 or 30 under the fourth toe. Tail once and three 

 fourths the length of head and body. Olive or greyish above, with 

 more or less distinct undulated transverse series of small black and 

 light spots on the back ; a longitudinal black streak between the 

 shoulders ; a black band from eye to ear ; upper lip and lower 

 surfaces greenish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 273 Fore limb 33 



Head 23 Hind limb 44 



Width of head .... 14 Tail 175 



Body 75 



New Caledonia. 



a. Ad. Isle of Pines. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.]. 



b-c. Ad. & hgr. Noumea. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P".]. 



62. Lygosoma telfairii. 



Leiolepisma bellii. Gray, Cat. p. 84. 

 Scincus telfairii, Deyard. Ann. Sc. Nat. xxii. 1831, p. 293. 

 Tiliqua bellii, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix-. Syii. p. 70. 

 Leiolepisma telfairii, Dam. ^- Bihr. v. p. 742, pi. 1. 



Habit lacertiform, rather st(.)iit ; the distance between the end of 

 the suout and the fore limb is contained once and one fifth to once 

 and three fifths in the distance betweeii axilla and groin. Snout 

 moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided semitrausparent 

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



