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 loo. Lygosoma pallidiceps (de Vis). 



Emoa pallidiceps, de Vis, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. Wales (2) V 1890, p. 497. 



Snout pyramidal, slightly depressed ; lower eyelid with a 

 transparent disk; ear-opening oval, larger than the palpebral 

 disk, with two or three small lobules anteriorly. Nostril between 

 three small shields, a nasal, a postnasal and a supranasal; 

 frontonasal more broad than long, broadly in contact with the 

 rostral, narrowly with the frontal; latter as long as the fronto- 

 parietal, narrower, in contact with the two anterior supra- 

 oculars; five supraoculars, last very small; seven supraciliaries; 

 frontoparietals and interparietal fused ; parietals in contact 

 behind the latter shield ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of tem- 

 porals; four labials before the large subocular. Body slender; 

 30 34 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals largest, trilin- 

 eated, laterals smallest; praeanals a little enlarged. Tail twice 

 as long as head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches 

 the axilla; digits moderate, basal part rounded, distal com- 

 pressed; fourth toe with 33 40 smooth lamellae below. 



Olive-brown above, head and nape paler and usually uniform ; 

 back with blackish spots, often arranged in a double line on 

 each side, sometimes separated by lighter coloured spaces; 

 a light dorso-lateral streak, beginning above the eye, to the 

 hind limbs; tail and limbs olive, with pale and black spots; 

 flanks black with a pale streak from axilla to groin and pale- 

 spotted, sometimes white-spotted. Lower parts yellowish-white, 

 stained with green. Length of head and body 50 mm.; 

 tail 100 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Lorentz river!, St. Joseph river). 



10 1. Lygosoma atrocostatum (Lesson). 



Scincus atrocostatus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille Zool. II 1830 p. 50, pi. IV fig. 3. 

 Lygosoma atrocostatum, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 295 (s. syn.); Kept. & 



Batr. of the Malay Penins. 1912, p. 94, 95. 



Lygosoma atrocostatiitn, Annandale, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) I 1905, p. 147- 

 Mabuya jerdoniana, Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 1870, p. 172. 

 Lygosoma jerdonianum, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 300. 

 Eumeces singaporensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien LXII I 1870, p. 341, pi. IV, fig. 2. 

 Lygosoma singaporense, Boulenger, Cat. Liz., p. 297. 

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



Snout long, obtusely pointed ; lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk; ear-opening oval, as large as or slightly larger 



