8. LTGOSOMA. 



289 



parietal, in contact with the first and second supraocnlars ; four 

 supraoculars ; five or six supraciliarics ; frontoparietal single, fol- 

 lowed by a small interparietal ; parietals forming a median suture ; 

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

 labials anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening oval, smaller tliaa 

 the transparent palpebral disk, with a few small obtuse lobules. 

 30 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth, or dorsals and 

 laterals feebly tricarinate. Praeanals not enlarged. The hind limb 

 reaches the elbow. Fingers four, toes five: subdigital l.imolla) 

 smooth, 25 to 30 under the fourth toe. Olive above, with or with- 

 out lighter black-edged dots ; a white streak along the upper lip to 

 the ear, and another from the car to the slioulder, somjlimes con- 

 tinued along the side of the body ; a whitish spot on the hinder 

 side of the base of the thigh : lower surfaces greenish white ; throat 

 bluish in the male, spotted or longitudinally streaked with black. 



millim. 



Total length lOO 



Head 11 



Width of head 7 



Body 33 



Queensland. 



millim. 



Fore limb 13 



Hind limb 19 



Tail 56 



a. Ad. Port Essington. 



b. Ad. Peak Downs. 



c-e. Ad. North-Australian Expedition. 



Mr. Gilbert [C.]. (Type of 



Carlia melanopoyon.) 

 Museum Godelfroy. 

 Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.]. 



Lygisaurus foUorinn, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, 

 p. 77, from Brisbane, is probably a Lyriosoma allied to the pre- 

 cedin 

 to vent. 



^. It is founded on a specimen measuring 7g lines from snout 



86. Lygosoma novae-guineae. 



Lygosoma (Carlia) novse-guineae, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 132. 

 Carlia macfarlani, G'unth. Ann. ^- May. N. H. (4) xix. 1877, p. 413. 

 Heteropus (Carlia) melanopogou, Peters 8f Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 

 xiii. 1878, p. 364. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained once and one fourth to once and a half in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid with a very large transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the 

 nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 

 broad suture with the rostral and a narrow one with the frontal ; 

 latter shield a little shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with 

 the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven or eight 

 supraciharies ; frontoparietal single ; interparietal distinct ; parietals 

 forming a median suture ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 

 border the parietals ; three, rarely four, upper labials anterior to 

 the subocular. Ear-opening roundish, much smaller than the trans- 



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