Lizards and Frogs from New Ouinea. 9 



milliin. 



Total length 138 



Head 13 



Width of head 8 



Body 45 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 27 



Tail 80 



A single specimen. 



Lygosoma curium. 



Section Liolepiama. Body short and stout ; limbs rather 

 feeble, with four fingers and five toes ; the distance between 

 the end of the snout and the fore limb contained once and 

 two fifths to once and a half in the distance between axilla 

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

 a moderately large transparent disk, which is but little larger 

 than the ear-opening. No supranasal ; frontonasal nearly 

 twice as broad as long, forming a broad suture with the 

 rostral and a narrow one with the frontal ; latter as long as 

 or a little shorter than the single frontoparietal, in contact 

 with the first and second supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; 

 interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a median suture ; a 

 pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals : 

 three upper labials anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening 

 rather small, roundish, with a single projecting lobule on its 

 anterior border. 26 scales round the body, all smooth, or 

 dorsals with three feeble grooves. Prseanals not enlarged. 

 The hind limb reaches the wrist of the adpressed fore limb. 

 Digits short ; subdigital lamellge smooth, 23 to 25 under the 

 fourth toe. Tail little longer than head and body. Dark 

 brown above, uniform or with small lighter spots ; yellowish 

 or greenish white beneath. 



millim. 



Total length 82 



Head 9 



Width of head 6 



Body 28 



Fore limb 10 



Hind limb 14 



Tail 45 



Four specimens. 



Lygosoma iridescens. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



Section Emoa. Habit lacertiform ; tlie distance between the 

 end of the snout and the-i'ore limb contained once and one fourth 



