248 



S/. Lygosoma cyanogaster (Lesson). 



Scincus cyanogaster^ Lesson, Voy. Coquille Zool. II 1830, p. 47, pi. Ill fig. 3. 



Lygosoma cyanogaster^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 292 (s. syn.). 



Emoia cyanogaster^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 94. 



Snout long, obtuse; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; 

 ear-opening roundish or oval, not or slightly larger than the 

 palpebral disk, with two or three short lobules anteriorly. 

 Nostril between three small shields, a nasal, a postnasal and 

 a supranasal; frontonasal as long as broad or more broad than 

 long, in contact with the rostral and sometimes with the 

 frontal ; praefrontals very shortly in contact, if at all ; frontal as 

 long as the frontoparietal or as the latter and the interparietal 

 together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four 

 supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; 

 interparietal small but distinct; parietals in contact behind it; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals; five labials before 

 the large subocular. Body with 24 26 smooth scales round 

 the middle, the two vertebral series largest, laterals smallest; 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb 

 is contained one time and one third to one time and a half 

 in the distance between axilla and groin; praeanals not or 

 feebly enlarged. Tail twice as long as head and body or longer 

 still. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the elbow or the 

 axilla; digits moderate, depressed, the distal part compressed; 

 fourth toe with 70 90 smooth lamellae below. 



Olive or brown above, uniform or with small blackish and 

 pale spots; sometimes a black lateral band beginning at the 

 nostril, passing through the eye and lost on the flanks; this 

 band bordered by a series of light spots. Lower parts yellowish 

 or bluish green. Length of head and body 99 mm.; tail 190 mm. 



Habitat: Ambon; Halmahera; Waigeu!; New Guinea 

 (Jobi, Mafoor, Haas, Rubi, Mansinam, Sorong, Sermowai river!, 

 Tanah Merah Bay!, Humboldt Bay!, Mimika river, Stekwa 

 river, Lorentz river!, Tangion Bair, Katow, Fly river, Bara 

 Bara, Haveri, Fife Bay); Schouten Islands (Mysore); Aru Islands; 

 Kei Islands. Ferguson Island ; Trobriand Island ; Woodlark 

 Island ; Rossel Island ; Queensland ; Islands of Torres Straits ; 

 Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; Santa Cruz; New 

 Hebrides. 



