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the tail, or with dark brown spots forming bars across the body 

 or restricted to the sides ; three or four large black spots, with 

 white dots between them, may be present on each side of the 

 neck ; a black canthal and temporal streak sometimes present ; 

 lips uniform whitish, or blotched with brown or black ; lower 

 parts whitish, throat sometimes blotched with dark brown. 



6. $. 



Total length 173 165 millim. 



Head 20 17 „ 



Width of head 14 9 „ • 



Body 48 44 „ 



Fore limb 27 23 „ 



Hind limb 40 35 „ 



Tail 105 104 „ 



Several specimens from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, col- 

 lected by Mr. A. S. Meek. 



The nearest allies of L. milnense are L. concinnatum Blgr., 

 from the Solomon Islands, and L. shnum Sauv., from Kew Guinea. 



Ltgosoma granulatum. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



Connecting the Sections Hinidia and Otosaurus. Habit lacerti- 

 form ; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore 

 limb is contained once and one third in the distance between 

 axilla and groin. Snout very short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. 

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; a very small supranasal, betAveen 

 the frontonasal, the nasal, and the first loreal, which is single ; 

 rostral forming a straight suture with the frontonasal, which is 

 much broader than long and touches the anterior angle of the 

 frontal ; latter much narrowed posteriorly, a little longer than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 three first supraoculars ; seven supraoculars, first more than 

 twice as long as second, seventh very small; eleven supraciliaries, 

 first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, the former 

 a little longer than the latter ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interpai'ietal ; no nuchals, each parietal in contact with four 

 scales ; fourth, fifth, and sixth upper labials below the eye. Ear- 

 opening large, oval, as large as the eye-opening; tympanum 

 scarcely sunk ; no auricular lobules. 36 scales round the middle 

 of the body, laterals smallest, dorsals slightly larger than ventrals, 

 dorsals and laterals rovigh with minute granular asperities. A pair 

 of enlarged prjeanals. The hind limb reaches the axilla. Digits 

 elongate, compressed, obtusely keeled below ; 20 lamellae under 

 the fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head 

 and body. Pale reddish brown above, variegated with dark 

 brown ; sides with laig-e dark brown spots, some forming vertical 

 bars ; a white dot above the tympanum, another above the 

 shoulder; sides below the large spots reticulated with dark brown; 



