8. LYGOSOMA. " 303 



103. Lygosoma rufescens. 



Eumeces oppellii, Oray, Cat, p. Oy. 

 Scincus auratus, part., Schncid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 181. 

 Lacerta rufescens, part., S/unv, Zool. iii. p. 285. 

 Sciiicus riifesceiLs, Merr. J'ent. p. 71. 

 I'^uprepis nifesceus, IVicf/m. Arch. f. Nat. 18.j7, p. 132 ; Peters, Mon. 



lierl. Ac. 18G4, p. 49." 

 Eumeces oppellii, Ihnn. H^- Bihr. v. p. 05G. 



Mabouia niacrurn, G'unth. Ann. ^- Maij. N. H. (3) x.\. 1867, p. 48. 

 Euprepes upellii, Steind. Xovara, liept. p. 44. 

 Eumeces luiiformis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 133} Peters ^• 



Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 350. 



brunneus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. IF. ii. 1877, p. 65, 



INlabouia uuiformis, Macleay, I. c. 



Eumeces rufescens, Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, p. 334} 



Peters Sf Doria, /. c. p. 350. 

 Euprepes (Tiliqua) cingulatus, Peters Jsj- Doria, I. c. p. 352. 



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

 snout and the fore limb is contained once and two thirds to twice 

 in the distance between axilla and groin in the adult, once and one 

 third to once and a half in the very young. 8nout short, obtuse. 

 Lower eyelid usually scaly, sometimes with an undivided opacjue 

 disk. Nostril between the nasal and a small supranasai ; fronto- 

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

 with the frontal ; pra?frontals small ; frontal usually as long as or a 

 little shorter than the frontoparietals and parietals together, some- 

 times a little longer, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 oculars ; five supraoculars, fifth very small ; eight or nine supra- 

 ciliarics, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct ; interparietal distinct, 

 larger than the frontoparietals ; parietals forming a suture behiiid 

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

 the parietals ; fifth 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. 28 

 to 30 scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals, especially the 

 two vertebral series, largest ; scales usually all smooth ; in some 

 young specimens the dorsals quinquecarinate. Praeanals not en- 

 larged. The adpressed limbs fail to meet in the adult, just meet in 

 the very young. Digits short, compressed ; subdigital lamellae 

 smooth, 16 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, about once and 

 a half the length of Jiead and body. Brown above, with strong 

 opaline gloss, with or without more or less distinct dark transverse 

 bands ; young blackish brown, with yellowish transverse lines on 

 the body and tail ; lips frequently with more or less distinct black 

 vertical bars, most distinct in the young, in which they are con- 

 tinued as V-shaped bands on the throat; lower surfaces yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 358 Fore limb 31 



Head 31 Hind limb 41 



Width of head 20 Tail 2] 5 



Body 112 



