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toes are similar but smaller, and there are nineteen femoral pores on each side. 
A note by the captor remarks: “ In life the colors change rapidly from green to 
green with blue-grey bands,’’ which raises the question whether it is right to 
state that the male is banded and the female uniform in color. In one case 
there are fourteen femoral pores on one side and fifteen on the other; in an- 
other there are twelve on one side and fourteen on the other. 
Lygosoma tenue Bovt. 
Tiliqua tenuis GRAY. 
Scales in twenty-eight rows around the body. 
Cooktown; Mr. Olive. 
Lygosoma noctua P. D. 
Scincus noctua LEss. 
Upolu, Samoa; Dr. Woodworth. 
Lygosoma fuscum Bovt. 
Heteropus fuscus D. B. 
The present variety was collected by Mr. Olive near Cooktown. It hasa 
dark band from the snout through the eye to the shoulders, which is white- 
edged and longer in the young. On some large specimens the line between 
the eye and shoulder is very black, and is broken by narrow streaks of white 
into several blotches. In cases there are white specks scattered over the 
flanks. Commonly the tail is lighter in color than the body and more red; it 
is thick at the base and tapers somewhat abruptly. Another variety taken at 
‘Cairns ” by Dr. A. G. Mayer is dark olive, and has thirty-four rows of scales 
around the body, instead of thirty-six as in the first form. 
Lygosoma eratum, sp. nov. 
Lacertiform ; the distance from the end of the snout to the arm is one-third 
of the length from snout to vent. Head moderate, rather pointed at the snout, 
subquadrangular in transsection ; snout short, one and one-half times the length 
of the eye, blunt. Lower eyelid with a large undivided transparent disk, larger 
than the earopening. Nostril pierced in a single nasal. Frontonasal wider than 
long, broadly in contact with the rostral, narrowly in contact with the frontal. 
No supranasal. Frontal in contact with two supraorbitals, shorter than the 
frontoparietal. Prefrontals not in contact, larger than the interparietal. Inter- 
parietal small, subtriangular, edges convex. Parietals forming a suture. A 
