296 sciNCiD^. 



subocular. Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little larger than the 

 transparent palpebral disk, usually with one or two small projecting 

 lobules anteriorly. 37 to 40 scales round the middle of the body, all 

 smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Marginal praeanals 

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

 Digits moderately elongate, somewhat flattened except at the end ; 

 subdigital lamella) smooth, 35 to 38 under the fourth toe. Tail 

 about once and two thirds the length of head and body. Greyish 

 or brownish olive above, with small darker and lighter spots ; a 

 more or less distinct blackish lateral band or series of spots on each 

 side ; lower sm-faces yellowish or greenish white. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- Body 72 



produced) 206 Fore limb 34 



Head 24 Hind limb 48 



Width of head .... 16 

 Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, Papuasia, Cape York, Caroline and 

 Santa Cruz Islands. 



a. Ad. Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]._ 



(Type of Mocoa cumingii.) 

 b-d. Ad. Dinagat Island. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



e \d. Flv Ptiver, New Guinea. Rev. S. Mactariane [C.]. 



y-; Xd. — - ? Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



93. Lygosoma baudinii. 



Mabouya baudinii, Gray, Cat. p. 95. 

 Euprepes physicfe, Gray, I. c. p. 115. 

 Eumeces baudinii, Dmn. ^- Bihr. v. p. 653. 

 Euprepes phy&icje, Dtivu Sf Bihr. p. 688 ; Doria, Atin. Mus. Genova, 



vi. 1874, p. 337. 

 Emoa baudiui, Girard, U.S. E.vphr. Ejrped., Hcrp. p. 263. 

 Euprepes (Tiliqua) baudinii, Peters 8,- JJoria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 



1878, p. 353. . ^ ... 



Eumeces beccarii (non Doria), Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ui. 



1878, p. 53. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 

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

 third in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, 

 obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostrilpierced between three shields — a nasal, a postnasal, and a supra- 

 nasal; frontonasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture 

 with the rostral and a narrower one with the frontal ; latter nearly 

 as long as and narrower than the parietal, in contact with the first 

 and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven or eight supra- 

 ciliarics ; frontoparietals and interparietal fused to a single large 

 shield ; parietals forming a long 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, a little larger 

 than the transparent palpebral disk. 36 or 38 (to 40) scales round 



