8. LTGOSOMA.. 337 



millim. millirn. 



Total longth 154 Fore limb 1 



'D 



o 



Head 11 Hiiul liiub 9 



AVidth of head 6-5 Tail 62 



Body 81 



"Western Australia. 



a-e. Ad. W. Australia. (Types.) 



f. Ad. Swan River. 



g. Ad. Australia. J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 



149. Lygosoma rniopus. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4.) 

 Soridia miopus, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. II. (3) xx. 1867, p. 49. 



Body much elongate ; fore limb represented by a minute tubercle, 

 behind which is a short longitudinal groove ; hind limb monodac- 

 tyle. Snout cuneiform. Eye very small. Lower eyelid with a 

 transparent disli. Xasals forming a median suture. Head-shields 

 in every respect similar to those of L. lineojjunctulatum. 20 scales 

 round the body. Hind limb a little shorter than the distance be- 

 tween the ear and the fore limb. Pale olive above, with four very 

 indistinct lines of minute blackish dots along the dorsal series of 

 scales. 



From snout to vent 82 millim. , hind limb 8. 



JVorth-western Australia. 



a. Ad. Champion Bay. ^Ii". Duboulay [C.]. (Type.) 



150. Lygosoma bipes. 

 Rhodona bipes, Fischer, Arch.f. Nat. 1882, p. 292, pi. xvi. figs. 10-15. 



Body much elongate ; fore limb absent ; hind limb didactyle. 

 Snout cuneiform. Eye very small. Lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk. Kasals in contact behind the rostral ; no prefrontals ; 

 frontal much broader than the supraocular region ; frontoparietals 

 and interparietal fused into a single large shield, behind which the 

 band-like parietals form a suture ; third upper labial entering the 

 orbit. Ear-opening punctiform. 18 smooth scales round the body. 

 Two enlarged prseanals. Outer toe more than twice as long as 

 inner. Reddish brown above, lighter inferiorly ; two series of dark 

 brown dots along the middle of the back ; a broad dark brown 

 lateral band. 



From snout to vent 57 millim., hind limb 10. 



Xicol Bay, Xorth-western Australia. 



151. Lygosoma prsepeditum. 



Soridia lineata, Grag, Cat. p. 90. 

 Soridia lineata, Grag^ Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 336, and in Gre^fs 

 Trav. Austral, ii. p. 438, jil. iii. fig. 2 ; Giinth. Ann. i^~ Mag. N. H, 

 (4) xii. 1873, p. 147. 

 Prfepeditus lineatus, Dum. ^' Bihr. v. p. 787. 

 Pholeophilus capensis, Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept, App. p. 15. 

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