distinctly border from above the dark-brown color of sides, 

 which gradually becomes lighter towards the greyish abdomen. 

 Two dark wavy lines with uneven edges on sides of tail, forming 

 characteristic pattern (Figure 3). 



Length of body with head 27 mm. Length of unautotomized 

 tail 36 mm. 



Comparative remarks. The species described belongs to the 

 group of small short- legged lygosome skinks, previously separated 

 into the genus Homolepida . According to many plastic characters 

 and body proportions it is closer to the New Guinean S. crassicauda 

 and S„ f orbesi . Judging from the description of the only known 

 specimen of S. schlegeli (Dunn, 1927), which inhabits neighboring 

 Komodo Island, this species differs from it by the pointed shape 

 of the head, larger ear opening and the presence of nuchal scutes, 

 a somewhat different arrangement of head scutes, the larger 

 number of scales around midbody, and different proportions and 

 patterns of coloration. It is also fairly well distinguished 

 from the related West Indonesian species S. temminckii and 

 S. vanheurni (Brongersma, 1942). 



Range. The island of Rintja in Lesser Sunda Archipelago. 

 Single specimen found in the dense wet jungles on the summit of 

 the island (approximately 700 m above sea level). A second 

 specimen was seen at the same locality but was not caught. The 

 lizards hide in the thick wet cover of fallen leaves and moss. 



LEI0L0PISMA KADARSANI sp. n. (Figures 4 and 5a, b) 



Diagnosis. Short- legged Leiolopisma with undivided fronto- 

 parietal and no interparietal scute. Twenty-four to 26 smooth 

 scales around midbody, fourth digit of hindlimb with 20 to 23 

 subdigital lamellae. 



Holotype. Bogor Zoological Museum (Indonesia), No. 976, 



1 female, adult, Island of Komodo in Lesser Sunda Archipelago, 



2 August 1962, I.S, Darevskii. 



Paratypes. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences 

 of the USSR (Leningrad), No, 17599, series of 14 specimens, same 

 locality. 



Description. Head short, obtuse anteriorly. Lower eyelid 

 with undivided transparent disc. Ear opening round, smaller in 

 diameter than ocular disc, without any distinct scaly lobules. 

 Nostril between nasal, first supralabial and postnasal scutes. 

 Supranasal scute absent. Frontonasal wider than long, bordering 

 rostral anteriorly and frontal posteriorly. Latter shorter than 



