Gt ]\li. 0. A. Boulengcv on 



(). Proviops pamana, Miller. 



Forearm only 43 mm. in length. Third metacarpal -ii'o. 

 Hah. Upper' Purus River, Amazonia. Type from Hynta- 

 naham. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, No. 105528. 

 Described on a specimen witliout skull. 



IX. — Descriptions of Two new Lizards from Australia. 

 By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



(Publisbed by permission of tbe Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Among the reptiles collected by Dr. E. Scharff on his visit 

 to Australia with the British Association and submitted to me 

 for identification, I have found examples of two unknown 

 Scincid lizards, which are here described. Dr. Scharff has 

 kindly allowed me to keep the types for the British Museum. 



Lygosoma scharffi. 



Section Siaphos. Habit lacertiform ; the distance between 

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

 a half in the distance between axilla and groin ; fore limb 

 tetvadactyle, hind limb pentadactyle. Snout short, rather 

 pointed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal 

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

 rostral ; no praefrontals ; frontal slightly longer than the 

 frontoparietals, in contact with the first and second supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars, first smallest ; seven supiaciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, longer than interparietal ; parietals 

 formino- a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals 

 and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fourth upper 

 labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening minute. 

 20 smooth scales round the middle of the body, dorsals 

 laro-est. Praeanals feebly enlarged. Fore limb reaching 

 between the ear and the eye ; fingers short, third slightly 

 lono-er than second; hind limb nearly as long as the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb; toes 

 short, third and fourth equal, with 14 or 15 smooth lamella3 

 inferiorly. Dark brown above, with lighter dots, brownish 

 white beneath ; a blackish lateral streak on the posterior 

 part of the body and on the tail ; brown spots on the lower 

 lip. 



