292 sciNCiD^. 



88. Lygosoma mivarti. (Plate XXTTI, fig. 1.) 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 

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

 distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, pointed. 

 Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced 

 between three small shields — a nasal, a postnasal, and a supranasal ; 

 frontonasal broader than long, broadly in contact with the rostral 

 and with the frontal : latter nearly as long as but smaller than the 

 frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal fused into a single large sliield ; parietals forming a long 

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

 border the parietals ; five (exceptionally 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 anteriorly. 34 to 38 scales round the middle of the body, 

 all smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Prceanal scales not 

 or scarcely enlarged. The hind limb reaches the axilla or a little 

 beyond the shoulder. Digits moderately elongate, subcylindrical ; 

 subdigital lamellae smooth, 40 under the fourth toe. Tail about 

 once and three fourths the length of head and body. Brownish or 

 olive above, with small black spots, sometimes forming a band on 

 each side of the vertebral zone ; a light dorso-lateral band ; sides 

 deep black, with a white streak extending from the upper lip to the 

 groin, passing through the ear ; a white oblique streak on the arm : 

 lower surfaces greenish white. 



millim. millim. 



Totallength 130 Fore limb 18 



Head 13 Hind limb 26 



Width of head ... . 8 TaU 82 



Body 35 



Admiralty Islands. 



a. Several spec. Wild Island. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



Named in honour of Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S. 



89. Lygosoma cyanogaster. 



Mabouya carteretii, Gray, Cat. p. 95. 

 Scincus cyanogaster, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 47, pi. iii. 



fig. 3. 

 Eumeces carteretii, Dum. <^ Bibi'. v. p. 651. 

 Emoa cartereti, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 26.3. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) carteretii, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 1.33 ; 



Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, p. 339 ; Peters 4* Doria, Ann. 



Mies. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 358. 

 ? Euprepis simillimus, Macleay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. W. ii. 1877, 



p. 69. 



Habit lacertiform, the distance between the end of the snout 



