166 DR. A. GUNTHER ON REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS [Feb. 4, 



rated from the rostral by the frontals. //. ncevia is not confined to 

 New Guinea ; we have one specimen from Dillwyn's Bornean col- 

 lection ; it is not well preserved. 



Hinulia nigbolabris. (Plate XVII. fig. A.) 



Closely allied to H. ncevia and H. variegata, but distinguished 

 from the former by considerably longer toes, and from the latter by 

 having the vertical shield separated from the rostral by the frontals. 



The middle of the body is surrounded by forty-six longitudinal 

 series of scales. Upper labials five or six. Ear-opening large, with- 

 out denticulation. The fore leg, when stretched forward, extends 

 to, or even slightly beyond, the end of the snout, the hind leg beyond 

 the axil. Upper parts chestnut-brown, with irregular transverse 

 black spots; sides and legs variegated with black and brown. Tail 

 nearly entirely black. A black band from the eye, above the tym- 

 panum, extends to the side of the neck, where it is lost in the brown 

 coloration of the sides. The meeting edges of the jaws black. 



inches, lines. 



Distance of the snout from the eye 3 



,, „ „ tympanum .... 9 



jj » >> ax i' ' 3 



„ „ „ vent 3 8 



Length of the fore leg 1 3j 



„ third and fourth fore toes 4 



hind leg 2 



„ third hind toe 6 



,, fourth hind toe 8^ 



Total length 9 6 



One specimen, obtained by Dr. Meyer in Northern Celebes. 



Cophoscincus infralineolatus. 



Scales smooth ; supranasal shields none ; lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk ; ear-opening hidden. 



Snout depressed, not produced. Vertical bell-shaped, in contact 

 with the praefrontal. Scales in twenty-two longitudinal series, ot 

 which the two middle on the back are very broad, twice as broad as 

 the adjoining series. There are forty-two scales in a longitudinal 

 series between the axil of the fore leg and the vent. Two large pree- 

 anal scales. Black above, with three golden-yellow longitudinal 

 bands, as broad as the black ground-colour between. The middle 

 band commences on the end of the snout, and is continued on the 

 tail ; the lateral band commences on the superciliary edge, and runs 

 along the side of the back to the root of the tail, where it is lost. 

 The entire lower side with fine brown longitudinal lines running 

 along the meeting edges of the rows of scales. Limbs finely reticu- 

 lated, and the toes annulated, with black. 



A single specimen was obtained by Dr. Meyer on Sangi Island ; 

 it has lost the greater portion of its tail. 



