8. LYGOSOMA, 



275 



parictals in contact behind the interparietal, bordered by a pair of 

 nuchals and a pair of temporals ; usually two or three pairs of 

 nuchals behind the anterior pair ; fifth and sixth upper labials 

 below the eye. Ear-opening oval, about as larcro as the transparent 

 palpebral disk, without or witii a few very minute prnjertiiig lobules 

 anteriorly. 30 or 38 scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals 

 largest and frequently striated or feebly pluricariiiate. Pra^anal 

 scales not or scarcely enlarged. The adpresscd limbs may overlap 

 or fail to meet. Digits moderately long, subcylindrical ; subdigital 

 lamelloe smooth, 16 to 20 under the fourth toe. Tail about as long 

 as head and body. Brown or olive-brown above, usually with small 

 black spots and a more or less distinct light dorso-lateral band, which 

 is edged inferiorly by the dark brown of the upper part of the sides ; 

 flanks paler, often Avith light dots ; lower surfaces yellowish or pale 

 olive, throat usually variegated with blackish. Some specimens 

 almost entirely black. 



niilliui. 



Total length 116 



Head 13 



Width of head 9 



Body 43 



millim. 



Fore limb 15 



Hind limb 22 



Tail 60 



New Zealand. 



o, b. Several spec. : 

 ad. & hgT. 



c. Many spec. : ad., 

 h^-., & yg. 



d. Yg. 



\e-ff. Ad. 



N. Zealand. 

 N. Zealand. 

 White Island. 



Lieut. Alexander 



Smith [P.]. , /rp N 

 Antarctic Expe- ( *^^5pes.; 



dition. ' 



Colonial Museum of New 



Zealand. (Tj-pe oi Norbea 



isolata.) 



68. Lygosoma aeneum. 



Cyclodina senea, Girard, U. S. Exiilor. Exped., Herp, p. 236, pi. xxvi. 

 figs. 9-16. 



The distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is 



Icontained once and two thirds to twice in the distance between 



ixilla and groin. Snout very short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an 



undivided transparent disk, jS'ostril pierced in the centre of the 



lasal ; no suprauasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 



luture with the rostral and with the frontal ; prsefrontals small ; 



rental a little shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, 



n contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; 



even supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, as long as or a little 



onger than the interparietal ; parietals in contact behind the inter- 



larietal : a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 



•arietals. Ear-opening roundish, hardly as large as the transparent 



alpebral disk. 26 or 28 scales round the body ; dorsals largest 



nd more or less distinctly striated. Praeanal scales not or scarcely 



Limbs short, widely separated when adpressed 



i2 



nlargod. 



Digits 



