8 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
pair of broad nuchals. A large temporal shield in contact with each parietal. 
Lower labials six. Anterior submental very broad, with a blunt angle in front, 
followed by a pair of large shields forming a suture behind it, this pair followed 
by another pair separated by a small shield, and these again by a third pair 
separated by three scales. Labials five or six, eye over the third or the fourth, 
which is much elongated. Supraorbitals four, second largest, first shortest and 
smallest. Postnasal short, oblique. Loreal comparatively large. Earopening 
smaller than the eye, elongate, hidden by sharp lobules from the upper side 
and from the lower. Scales smooth, in twenty-two rows around the body, 
largest on the back, smallest on the flank. In six or seven of the anterior 
series the subcaudal scales are small, behind these there is a median series 
of much broader ones. Limbs moderate, hardly meeting when adpressed ; an- 
terior with fpur digits, posterior with five. Fourth toe with about eighteen 
subdigital lamella. Tail one and three-fifths times the length of head and 
body. 
Light bronzed olive on back and sides, lustrous whitish to light. olivaceous 
below; each scale of back and sides with several darker streaks, resembling 
keels in effect, spreading into larger blotches on the tail; lighter patches on 
scales of the sides of the tail. Frecklings or small spots on lips, sides of throat 
and belly, and below the pelvic region and the tail. Limbs freckled with 
white. 
Near Cooktown; Mr. Olive. ‘ 
This species is allied to L. leve Oudem., 1894 : it differs in labials, in num- 
ber of rows of scales, and in the large eye-disk. 
Lygosoma cyanurum Bovt. 
Scineus cyanurus Less. 
Taviuni Island, Fiji; Dr. W. McM. Woodworth. 
Lygosoma samoense Bovt. 
Eumeces samoensis Dum. 
An individual taken on Viti Levu, Fiji, by Dr. Mayer may represent a 
variety of this species, since it possesses but twenty-eight rows of scales around 
the body, while the species is characterized by thirty or more. Other speci- 
mens collected by Dr. Woodworth on Suva have thirty-two rows. 
Lygosoma atromaculatum, sp. nov. 
Form similar to that of L. isolepis Boul. Body elongate, slightly depressed ; 
limbs short, rather weak, not meeting by the length of the arm when adpressed ; 
feet pentadactyl ; tail one and one-half times as long as head and body, thick, 
