434 On new Lizards in the British Museum. 
one fourth or once and one fifth in the distance between 
axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. 
Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal ; a single 
anterior loreal; rostral forming a very long curved suture 
with the frontonasal, which is less than twice as broad as 
long and forms a short suture with the frontal; latter much 
narrowed posteriorly, a little shorter than frontoparietals and 
interparietal together, in contact with the two or three first 
supraoculars ; five supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; fronto- 
parietals and interparietal distinct, nearly equal in size ; 
parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; nuchals 
passing gradually into the dorsals; third, fourth, and fifth 
Jabials below the eye. Har-opening oval, smaller than the 
eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 24 or 26 scales round the 
middle of the body, dorsals largest, dorsals and laterals rough 
with minute granular asperities. No enlarged preanals. 
The hind limb reaches the axilla or the shoulder. Digits 
rather elongate, slender, slightly compressed, with very 
narrow smooth lamelle inferiorly ; 36 to 39 lamelle under 
the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to nearly twice the 
length of head and body. Brown above; a lighter vertebral 
stripe, with several dark brown spots or bars across it; alight 
dorso-lateral streak, beginning from the supraciliary region ; 
a dark brown lateral band, passing through the eye; an 
elongate black spot, with light centre, above the axillary 
region; limbs with dark brown annuli; lower parts white, 
head and neck with dark brown spots or longitudinal lines. 
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Motal length yeti here 126 
MEV OAG Se sc ait d esters OR ee 12 
Wadth.of headsy).n inh num pee 7 
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Madd saccsieeectahecuste' de etatsPohee ieee mises mice 82 
Six specimens from Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago, 
collected by Mr. A. 8S. Meek in 1898. 
Typhlosaurus Cregot. 
Snout conical, strongly projecting. Rostral as long as the 
other head-shields together ; frontal and frontoparietal equal 
in size, nearly twice as broad as long; a pair of large 
parietals, forming a suture behind the small interparietal ; 
eye scarcely distinguishable below a small ocular; a larger 
supraocular ; four small upper labials; symphysial very 
