128. . DR. A. GUNTHER ON REPTILES AND [ Feb. 20, 
be quite correct in including these islands in his Austro-Malayan sub- 
region, as will be seen from the following list, in which I have noted 
the geographical range of each species. 
List of Reptiles. 
Lizarps: 
1. Monitor chlorostigma, Cuy. ............ Celebes, Ceram, New Guinea, North 
Australia, Solomon Islands. 
.2. Eumeces albofasciolatus, Gthr.......... North Australia. 
3. Hinulia megaspila, sp. n. 
4, Keneuxia smaragdina, Less. ......... Ceram, Amboyna, Philippines, Pelew 
Island, New Guinea. 
5. Mabouia carteretii, D. & B......... ... New Ireland, New Guinea, Amboyna, 
and Wokan (Doria). 
6. Mabowia cyanura, Less. ...........-.+- Amboyna, Mysol, New Guinea, hence 
throughout Polynesia. 
7. Mabouwia nigra, Hombr. & Jacq. ...... Fiji Islands, Samoa Islands, Con- 
trariété Island. 
Ba (Gecko wnitiacus, Miabr. ean deev ee. eet Mysol, Ceram, Amboyna, New Guinea, 
Aru Islands. 
9. Hypselurus macrolepis, Ptrs. ......... Pelew and Solomon Islands, 
SNAKES: 
1. Lielaphis modestus, Schleg. ..........-. Ceram, Amboyna, Mysol, Aru Islands. 
2. Tropidonotus hypomelas, sp. n. 
3. Dendrophis solomonis, Gthr. ......... Solomon Island. 
4. Dendrophis macrops, sp. n. 
5. Dipsas irregularis, Mery. ...,.....+++.-. Celebes, Ceratn, Amboyna, Mysol, 
Sangi Isl., New Guinea, Key Isl. 
6. Liasis amethystinus, Schneid. ......... Ceram, Mysol, Aru and Key Islands, 
New Ireland. 
7. Nardoa schlegelit, Gray. .........0-0.5 New Ireland. 
8. Exygrus carinatus, Schneid. .......+. Ceram, Amboyna, Mysol, New Guinea. 
9. Hrebophis asper, g. et sp. n. 
10. Diemenia miillert, Schleg. .........+++ New Guinea, North Ceram. 
ll. Platurus fasciatus, Daud. ............ Throughout the Hast Indian arehi- 
pelago and Polynesia. 
Descriptive Notes. 
HiNvLIA MEGASPILA, Sp. n. (Plate XX.) 
Resembles H. (Zumeces) aruensis in shape and general appearance. 
No supranasal shields. Lower eyelids scaly. Internasal broad and 
short, transversely linear, separated from the vertical by two frontals, 
which are broadly in contact with each other. In £&. arvensis the 
vertical is in contact with the internasal. Postnasals two, small and 
lateral, followed by a single large loreal; upper labials eight. LEar- 
opening large, oval, without prominent scales ; forty-one or forty- 
seven longitudinal series of scales round the body ; about fifty-eight 
transverse series between the fore and hind limbs; two larger pre- 
anal plates, with some smaller lateral ones. The fore limbs reach to 
the middle of the eye when stretched forward, the hind limbs some- 
what beyond the middle of the trunk. Fingers and toes short ; 
third and fourth fingers equal and longer than the second; fourth 
hind toe the longest ; third longer than the fifth. Colour brown ; 
