304 sciNciD^. 



Moluccas, Papuasia, Cape York. 



a. Ad. Ternate. 



b. Ad. Amboina. 



c. Ad. New Guinea. Leyden Museum. 



d-i. Ilgr. & yg. Fly River. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 



k. Ad. Islands of Torres Straits, Rev. S. Macfarlane | C.l. 



l-p, q-s, t. Ad. & Murray Island. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.j. 



hgr. 

 u. Ad. Cape York. Ilr. Darnel [C.]. (Type 



of Mahouia macrura.) 



104. Lygcsoma durum. 



Tiliqua dura, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philncl. 1862, p. 190. 

 ? Cophoscincus simulins, Vaillant, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) viii. 1884, 

 p. 170, and Bull. Sue. Zool. Prance, 1884, p. 349, pi. xii. fig. .3. 



Body stout, tetragonal. Lower eyelid scaly. Snout narrow, 

 with vertical sides. Upper head-shields longitudinally rugose. A 

 pair of supranasals, in contact mesially ; pnet'rontals in contact with 

 the supraoculars ; frontonasal in contact with the frontal, which is 

 elongate ; four supraoculars ; frontoparietals and interparietal dis- 

 tinct; a pair of nuchals ; temporal region covered with large keeled 

 scales ; fourth labial below middle of orbit. The ear-opening appears 

 as a small slit behind the free border of one of the posterior tem- 

 poral scales. 30 scales round the body ; laterals unicarinate, the 

 keels directed obliquely upwards and backwards ; dorsals very 

 strongly tricarinate. Four large marginal praeauals. The hind 

 limb reaches the elbow. Above dark rusty, the head and a broad 

 interscapular cross band, also a median dorsal series of spots, and 

 five or six rather large dorso-lateral spots, chestnut ; beneath and 

 upper lip rusty yellow. 



From snout to vent 50 millim. 



West Africa. 



105. Lygosoma fernandi. 



Tiliqua fernandi, Gray, Cat. p. 110. 

 Tiliqua fernandi, Burton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 62 ; Peters, Man. 



Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 372. 

 Plestiodon harlaui, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. ii. 1845, p. 170. 

 Euprepis striata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. vii. 1854, p. 98, and Tr. 



Amer. Philos. Soc. (2) xi. 1857, p. 74, pi. iii. fig. 1; A. Dum. 



Arch. Mus. x. pi. xv. fig. 1. 

 harlani, Hallow. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. (2) xi. p. 75, pi. iii. 



Euprepes (Tiliqua) elegans, Fischer, Oster-Progr. Ak. Gymn. Hamb. 

 1883, p; 3, pi. — . figs. 12-15. 



leoninus, Fischer, Ahh. Naturic. Ver. Hamb. viii. 1884, p. 7. 



Tiliqua nigiipes, F. Midler, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 704. 



Body elongate, cyclotetragonal, limbs moderate ; the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained about 



