8. LYGOSOMA. 273 



and ono fourth to once and two thirds as lonj? as head and body. 

 Brown or olive above, with a more or less regular, black-cdfred, lif;;ht 

 dorso-latoral streak ; buck uniform, or spotted with blackisli and 

 yellowish, or with three dark brown blaclc-edged longitudinal lines ; 

 usually a yellowish, black-edged streak on the upper li]) to the ear, 

 another from the car to the groin, a third on the anterior face of the 

 fore limb, and a fourth on the hinder side of the hind limb ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish, greyish, or pale olive, uniform or black-spotted. 



niilliin. 



Fore limb IS 



Hind limb 26 



Tail 102 



Sir R. Owen [P.]. (Type of 



Tiliqiia zelandica?) 

 H.M.8. ' Challenger.' 

 Capt. Drurv ( P.]. 

 Lord Devbv [P.J. 

 E. S. Ellisdon, Esq. [P.]. 

 Smithsonian Institution fP.]. 

 J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.^. 



Trustees of the College of 

 Surgeons [P-]- (Type of 

 Mocoa oioenii.) 



65, Lygosoma lineo-ocellatum. 



Lygosoma lineo-ocellata, A. Dum. Cat. Melh. Rept. p. 1G9 ; Peters, 



Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 745. 

 Mocoa zealandica, part., Giinth. Zool. Ereh. ^' Terr., Rept. p. 13. 



Yery closely allied to L. moco. Larger, stouter. (*7~WX 



Eostral slightly broader than deep, more produced J^ — J---^ 

 superiorly. 32 to 36 scales round the body. Colora- 

 tion very similar to that of Chalcides ocellatus. Back 

 pale brown or greyish olive, with small black spots 

 or ocelli with white centre ; a more or less marked 

 whitish dorso-lateral band, beginning on the nape ; p^Qj^^. ^^^^ upper 

 sides variegated with blackish, or blackish dotted with views of snout, to 

 white ; lower surfaces greyish, throat and breast show the form of 

 black-spotted. the rostral shield. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 205 Fore limb 25 



Head 17 Hind limb 32 



Width of head 13 Tail 115 



Body 73 



New Zealand. 



a-d. Ad. & hgr. N. Zealand. E. S. Ellisdon, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. N. Zealand. 



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