8. I,TGOSOMA. 279 



eye-opening, with two or three very small, scarcely projecting, 

 obtuse lobules on the anterior border. 28 to 30 scales round the 

 middle of the body ; dorsals tri- or quadricarinatc ; lateral scales 

 slightly smaller than dorsals. Pra^aiials not enlarged. The ad- 

 pressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. Digits subcylindrical ; sub- 

 digital lamellae smooth, 28 to 30 under the fourth toe. Tail about 

 once and a half the length of head and body. Olive or brown 

 above, uniform, or with darker dots and one or two darker bands 

 along the back ; a broad dark brown band along each side of the 

 head, neck, and body : usually a whitish streak from the ear to the 

 groin ; upper surface of tail usually with angular dark markings 

 pointing backwards ; lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. railliru. 



Total length 132 Fore limb 12 



Head 11 Hind limb 20 



Width of head ..... 7 Tail 81 



Body 40 



N'ew Caledonia. 



a-h. Ad. & hgr. Noumea. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



c-g. Ad. N. Caledonia. E. L. liayard, Esq. [P.]. 



h-i. Ad. N. Caledonia?*. J. Breuchley, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of Euprepes haplorhinus.) 



73. Lygosoma trilineatimi. (Piate XXI. fig. 2.) 



Mocoa trilineata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 81. 

 Tiliqua trilineata. Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 291. 

 Lygosoma duperreyi, JDum. 4" Bibr. v. p. 71o ; A. Dum. Cat. Meth. 



Rept. p. 167. 

 Euprepes dupen-eyi, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 47. 



Habit lacertiform, body much elongate ; the distance between 

 the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half 

 to twice and a half 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 forming a 

 suture with the rostral, the width of which suture is considerably 

 less than the width of the frontal, and a narrower one with the 

 fron*:al ; latter shield as long as or shorter than the frontoparietal, 

 in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 

 second largest ; five or six supraciliaries : frontoparietal single ; a 

 very small interparietal, behind which the parietals form a suture ; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth 

 upper labial largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, 

 about as large as the transparent palpebral disk, without or Avith 



* I have strong reason to believe that the locality ' Fiji ' appended to the 

 type specimens of Euprepes haplorhinus, Mocoa 'micropus, Hinv.Ua tetragonurus, 

 and Nannoscincus fuscus is erroneous, and that the specimens were procured in 

 Jfew Caledonia. 



