408 On new Reptiles from the Trobriand Islands. 
that it is a species of Taphes; but the specimen being unique and fragile, 
has not been thoroughly examined. 
Tenebrionide. 
Pedinus (Blindus) japonicus, Seidlitz in litt. 
In the Ins. Deutschland, v. p. 876 (1893), Dr. Georg Seidlitz notices, 
in the middle of a long paper on European Coleoptera (a mode of publica- 
tion certainly open to censure), a Japanese species of Pedinus. He says 
perhaps it is a variety of P. strigosus, a well-known and very common 
Japanese insect, but his descriptive lines are not sufficient to entitle his 
name to more than a manuscript value. All he says is “ prothorace basi 
parum emarginato, punctis vix elongatis, haud confluentibus obsito, femo- 
ribus posticis maris paullo curvatis, subtus basi tenuiter pubescentibus.” 
L. 8-9 mill. Dr. Seidlitz’s specimens came from Hildendorf, whose 
collections, some years prior to 1893, were examined and written about 
by Harold, and it seems probable Harold saw the specimens to which 
Seidlitz refers. 
LIV.—Descriptions of Two new Reptiles obtained by Mr. A. 8S. 
Meek in the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. By 
G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. 
Lygosoma longiceps. 
Section Liolepisma. Habit lacertiform; the distance be- 
tween the end of the snout and the fore limb nearly equals 
the distance between axilla and groin. Head twice and a 
half as long as broad; snout very long and pointed, much 
depressed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk ; 
nostril pierced in the middle of the nasal; no supranasal ; 
anterior loreal as deep as the nasal; frontonasal longer than 
broad, forming a broad straight suture with the rostral ; pre- 
frontals forming a median suture; frontal small, acutely 
pointed behind, as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal 
together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 
four supraoculars, first large; seven supraciliaries; fronto- 
parietals distinct, nearly as large as the interparietal, which 
is smaller than the frontal ; parietals forming a suture behind 
the interparietal; three pairs of nuchals; five upper labials 
anterior to the subocular. Har-opening oval, smaller than 
the eye-opening, without lobules. 24 smooth scales round 
the middle of the body, dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Two 
enlarged preanals. ‘The hind limb reaches the wrist of the 
adpressed fore limb. Digits depressed at the base, compressed 
at the end, third and fourth equal ; subdigital lamella smooth 
19 under the fourth toe. Dark brown above, with three 
