8. LTGOSOMA. 839 



the interparietal ; one or two pairs of nuchals ; fifth and sixth 

 upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than 

 the eye-openiiij2: : no auricular lol)iiles. '34 smooth scales round the 

 middle of the body, the two vertebral scries very broad. A pair of 

 slightly enlarged praeanals. Limbs not meeting when adpressed. 

 Digits short, compressed ; subdigital lamella? smooth, fre(]uently 

 divided. Tail thick, once and three fourtlis the length of head and 

 body. Brown above, with small darker or lighter spots ; a blackish 

 lateral baud, edged with yellowish, extends from the eyo to the 

 groin ; a blackish bar below the eye ; lower surfaces yellowish, 

 throat blackish brown. 



inilliin. millim. 



Total length 420 Fore limb 31 



Hend 23 Hind limb 47 



Width of head .... 16 Tail 270 



Body 127 



'New Guinea ; Coram. 



Var. latifasciatum. 



Lygosoma (Hinidia) latifasciata, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 131. 

 Elania annulata, Sauvciye, Bull. Soc. Fhilvm. (7) iii. 1879, p. 50. 



Reddish brown above, with transverse blackish-brown bands, 

 wider than the interspaces between them ; these bands form com- 

 plete rings on the taU : head dark brown, with a yellowish spot 

 between the eye and the ear. 



New Guinea. 



153. Lygosoma isodactylum. 

 Eumeces isodactylus, Gunth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 93, pi. xiii. fig. a. 



Body much elongate, limbs very weak ; the distance between the 

 end of the snout and the fore limb is contained thrice and a half in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Nasal rather large ; no supranasal, but a suture 

 extends from the nostril to the loreal ; rostral produced posteriorly 

 between the nasals, forming a suture with the frontonasal ; latter 

 shield much broader than long, forming a broad suture with the 

 frontal : pnefroutals small, widely separated ; frontal broader than 

 the supraocular region, a little shorter than the frontoparietal and 

 interparietal together, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 ocidars ; four supraoculars : six supraciliaries, first and last largest ; 

 frontoparietals fused into a single shield ; interijarietal distinct ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; no nuchals ; 

 fifth labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening an oblique 

 slit. 32 scales round the middle of the body, subequal, perfectly 

 smooth. Prseanals not enlarged. The fore limb, W'hen stretched 

 forwards, reaches the ear ; the length of the hind limb is contained 



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