Lizards and Frogs from Xeio Guinea. 7 



interparietal together, in contact with the two anterior supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in length ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; six pairs 

 of nuchals ; fifth upper labial below the centre of the eye. 

 Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening; no 

 auricular lobules. 28 smooth scales round the bodj, laterals 

 smallest, the two vertebral series much enlarged, more than 

 twice as broad as long, here and there fused to a single plate- 

 like scale five or six times as broad as long. A pair of large 

 prEeanals. The adpressed hind limbs just meet. Digits 

 short, feebly compressed ; subdigital lamellse smooth, mostly 

 divided, 18 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, tapering to a 

 fine point, a little longer than head and body. Brown above, 

 with a broad black dorso-lateral stripe extending from the 

 posterior corner of the eye to the middle of the tail, and 

 separated from its fellow by four and two half scales; each 

 of the four scales between the stripes with a black spot or 

 median streak, these spots and streaks confluent into four 

 interrupted dorsal lines ; sides of head and body greyish, 

 speckled and spotted with black ; lower parts white, throat 

 and tail speckled with black. 



miJliin. 



Total length 127 



Head 12 



Width of head 8 



Body 45 



Fore limb 12 



Hind limb 20 



Tail 70 



A single specimen. 



Lygosoma Stanley anum. (PL I. fig. 2.) 



Section Liolepisma. Body moderately elongate, limbs 

 moderate ; the distance between the end of the snout and the 

 fore limb contained once and a half in the distance between 

 axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with 

 an undivided transparent disk. No supranasal ; frontonasal 

 much broader than long, forming a suture with the rostral 

 and with the frontal ; latter a little longer than the single 

 frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; parietals 

 forming a suture behind the interparietal ,• three pairs of 

 nuclials; fifth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening 

 oval, smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 



