1070 MISS JOAN U. PllOCTJill ON NEW AND HARK HliPnl-KS 



HCIN GIDM. 



Lygosoma (Liolepisma) viiiENS Peters. 



Four of these sluirp-nosed skinks were collected on the banks 

 of the River Adler, Huon Gulf. 



Lygosoma (Liolepisma) longiceps Blgr. 



One very well-marked adult from Lae. 



The digits are depressed with smooth lam el he below as far as 

 the end joint ; the distal phalanx is slender and compressed, 

 and the digits therefore resemble those of a ITemidactylm. 



Lygosoma (Emoa) batpeusbyi, sp. n. 



Snout moderate in length, obtusely pointed. Rostral small, 

 twice as broad as deep, forming a suture with the frontonasal, 

 which is broader than long and roundly pointed anteriorly ; 

 frontal three-fifths broad as long, as long as fronto- and inter- 

 parietals together; frontoparietals fused; interparietal small, 

 distinct ; parietals forming a short median sutiu-e, and followed 

 by a pair of enlarged nuchals. Nostril pierced between a minute 

 nasal, small postnasal, and supranasal ; frontonasals separated 

 from each other; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; sixth 

 upper labial in place of subocular. Ear-opening small, not as 



Text-figure 3. 



Head of Lygosoma (Emoa) battersbyi, sp. ii. 

 a. dorsal view ; i. ventral view j c. lateral view. 



large as the transparent palpebi-al disk ; one auricular lobule. 

 Digits long, distally compressed ; thirty smooth lamella! under 

 fourth finger, forty luider fourth finger, forty under fourth too. 



Scales in thirty rows ; sharply tri- or quinijuecarinate. Mar- 

 ginal anals slightly enlarged. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the tip of the snout 

 and the fore-limb equals the distance between axilla and groin ; 

 the hind-limb reaches to in fi^ont of the shoulder when adpressed. 

 Tail nearly twice length of head and body. 



Olive-green above, lighter on the head ; opalescent beneath. 

 An indistinctly marked light lateral band, black-edged. 



