512 A.DDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



in a single nasal ; no supranasal ; a single anterior loreal (except 

 in one of the specimens, which has a very small shield above it) ; 

 rostral forming a broad, straight suture with the frontonasal, which 

 is much broader than long ; pncfrontals forming a median suture ; 

 frontal much narrowed posteriorly, as long as or shorter than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first longest ; eight or nine 

 supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 

 former longer than latter ; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; no enlarged nuchals ; fifth upper labial largest and 

 below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, nearly as large as 

 the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. Scales smooth, or dorsals 

 and laterals indistinctly pluricarinate, laterals smallest ; 40 scales 

 round the middle of the body. A pair of enlarged proeanals. The 

 hind limb roaches the elbow of the adpressed tore limb or the 

 axilla. Digits rather elongate, slightly compressed ; subdigital 

 lamellae smooth, 22 to 25 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a 

 half the length of head and body. Dark brown above, with strong 

 metallic gloss ; back black-spotted ; sides with black and whitish 

 spots elegantly arranged : a black band on each side of the head, 

 passing through the eye ; sometimes a large, black, white-edged 

 spot on each side of the neck ; lower surfaces brownish white, 

 clouded or longitudinally streaked with darker. 



milliin. millim. 



Total length 130 Fore limb 17 



Head 13 Hind limb 27 



Width of head 9 Tad (reproduced) . . 68 



Body 49 



Solomon Islands. 



a-d. Ad. & hgr. Faro Island. C. M. Woodford, Esq. [C.]. 



^^^ . Page 302. Lygosoina albofasciolatum. 



c-e. Ad. & hgr. Faro Island, Solomon C. M. Woodford, Esq. [C,]. 

 Islands. 



^^(j . Page 319. Lygosoma pellopleurum. 



The frontoparietal is single, much elongate, resembling a frontal 

 (it was described as such by Hallowell) ; interparietal between four 

 small parietals. 



a. Ad. Loo Cboo Islands. TI. Pryer, Esq. [P.]. 



Page 437. Diagnosis of the Suborder Rhiptoglossa, erase 

 ^'•presence of a supratemjporal hone.''' 



