8. LYGOSOMA. 



283 



/ / 



. Lygosoma ocellatum. 



Mocoa oci'llata, part., (irai/, Cdt. p. 82. 

 Mocoa ocollata, (ira\i, ZokI. Ereh. ^- Terr., licpt. p. S, pi, \ ii. ti:^-. ."». 

 Lyjrosoma hiornglvphicuui, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. licpt. p. lOf! ; 



Ilomhr. c^' Jacq. I'm/. Pole Sud {A-sfrolabe vt Zc/ec), Ji<-/)t. pi. v. 



%. 1. 



Habit lacerfciform ; tbe distance between the end of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained once and one fourth to once and 

 three fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Kostril 

 ])ierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, 

 forming a suture with the rostral, and usually in contact with the 

 anterior angle of the frontal : latter shield as long as and narrower 

 than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two anterior supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; seven or eight supraci- 

 liaries : frontoparietal single ; a small interparietal, behind which 

 the parietals form a suture ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of tem- 

 porals border the parietals ; sixth and seventh, or seventh and 

 eighth, upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening oval, nearly as 

 large as the eye-opening, with a few projecting granules or small 

 lobules anteriorly. 50 to 54 scales round the middle of the body ; 

 dorsals largest and sometimes feebly striated. Marginal praeanals 

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

 Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lamellie smooth, 20 to 24 under the 

 fourth toe. Tail a little longer than head and body. Pale olive 

 above, reticulated with black ; sides darker, usually with more or 

 less distinct pale olive, black-edged ocelli ; greenish or grey infe- 

 riorly, sometimes with darker longitudinal lines between the series 

 of scales. 



78. Lygosoma fuscum. 



Heteropus fuscus, Gi'aij, Cat. p. 107. 

 Heteropus fuscus, Dum. ^- Bibr. v. p. T-jD ; Peters ^ Doria, Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. ooO. 



leucotisnia, Bleeker, Katurk. Tijdsclu-. Nederl. Ind. xxii. 1860, 



p. 38. 



scblegelii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G4, p. ;"37 ; Doria, Ann. Mus, 



G$nova, vi. 1874, p. 341 



