302 SCINCIDJS. 



the fourth toe. Tail thick and long. Greenish above, with brown 

 cross bands ; a dark band from the eye to above the shoulder; lower 

 surfaces yellowish, brown- spotted. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail in- Body 156 



jured) 4913 Fore limb 54 



Head 37 Hind limb 78 



Width of head .... 27 



New Caledonia. 



a. Ad. N. Caledonia. 



102. Lygosoma albofasciolatum. (Plate XXIV.) 



Eumeces albofasciolatus, Gilnth. Ann, 8f Mag. N. H. (4) x. 1872, 

 p. 370. 



Body elongate, limbs short ; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained once and two thirds or once 

 and three fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 

 short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Xostrd between the nasal and 

 a small supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, broadly in con- 

 tact with the rostral and with the frontal ; praefrontals small ; 

 frontal as long as the frontoparietals and parietals together, in con- 

 tact with the first and second supraoculars ; five supraoculars, fifth 

 very small ; eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct, latter smallest ; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 

 parietals ; sixth labial largest, below the eye, from which it is 

 separated by a series of small scales. Ear-opening oval, smaller 

 than the eye-opening, with a series of short lobules anteriorly. 34 

 to 36 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth ; dorsals 

 slightly largest. Prseanals not enlarged. The limbs fail to meet 

 when adpressed. Digits short, compressed ; subdigital lamellae 

 smooth, 21 under the fourth toe. Dark brown above, with strong 

 opaline gloss, with more or less distinct yellowish-brown cross 

 bands ; lower surfaces yellowish white. 



luillira. millim. 



Total length 315 Fore limb 38 



Head 30 Hind limb 50 



Width of head 21 Tail (reproduced) . . 155 



Body 130 



North Australia, New Ireland. 



a. Ad. N.Australia. G. KrefFt, Esq. 'P.]. (Type.) 



b. Ad. Uuke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



