290 BciNCiD-as. 



parent pal^jebral disk, with subtriangiilar lobules all round. 24 to 

 26 scales round the middle of the bodj-, all smooth. Praeanals not 

 enlarged. The hind limb reaches the wrist. Fingers four, toes 

 five ; subdigital lamelltc smooth, 22 to 25 under the fourth toe. 

 Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. Brown 

 above ; sides with a darker band edged with yellowish, most distinct 

 in the young, sometimes disappearing in the adult ; lower surfaces 

 whitish, uniform or brown-dotted. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 81 Fore limb 10 



Head 8 Hind limb 13 



Width of head .... 5 Tail 48 . 



Body 25 



New Guinea and islands of Torres Straits. 



a-d. Ad. & yg. Islands of Torres Straits. ll^x. S. Macfarlaue [C.]. 



(Types of Carlia macfarlani.) 

 d-f. Ad. Murray Island. Rev. S. Macfarlaue [C.]. 



g. Ad. Katow, S. New Guiuea. 3Iarquis G. Doria [P.]. 



87. Lygosoma cyanurum. 



Mabouya cyaniira, Gi-ai/, Cat. p. 96. 

 Scincus cyanurus, Lesson, Voy. CoquiUe, Zool. ii. ]). 49, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 TiHqua cyanura, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 289. 

 Eumeces lessonii, Dum. Sf Bibr. v. p. Go4. 

 Eraoa cyanura, Girard, TJ. S. Kvplor. Exped., Herp. p. 270. 

 Euprepes cyanurus, Steindachn. Nuvara, Hept. p. 44. 

 Mabouia baudinii {non D. S,- B.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 296. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) kordoanus, Meyer, 3fon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 133; 



Peters 8f Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 357. 

 Euprepis (Mabuya) beccarii, Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, 



p. 338, pi. xi. %. D. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) cyaniuus, Doria, I. c. p. 338 ; Peters ^- Doria, I. c. 



p. 356. 



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

 the fore limb is contained once to once and one third in the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, pointed. Lower eye- 

 lid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced between 

 three small shields — a nasal, a postnasal, and a supranasal ; fronto- 

 nasal broader than long, broadly in contact with the rostral, and 

 usually also with the frontal : latter a little shorter than the fronto- 

 parietal, in contact Avith the first and second supraoculars ; four 

 supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries : frontoparietals and 

 interparietal fused to a single large shield : jiarietals forming 

 a suture behind the latter ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of 

 temporals border the parietals ; four labials anterior to the large 

 subocular. Ear-opening oval, about as large as the transparent 

 palpebral disk, with two or three very short obtuse lobules ante- 

 riorly. 26 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth; 

 dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Preeanal scales not or scarcely 



