256 ME. G. A. BOULENGER ON BATEACHIANS AND 



12. GONYOCEPHALUS DILOPIIUS D. & B. 



Mimika R. (B. O. U. Exped.). — Launch Camp, Setekwa R. (WoUaston Exped.). 



Varani D ^. 



13. Varanos salvadorii Peters & Doria. 



A head of this rare Monitor from Camp II, Setekwa R., 1800 ft. (Wollastoa Exped.). 



14. Varanus indicus Daud. 



Mimika R. (B. O. U. Exped.). — Launch Camp, Setekwa R. (Wollaston Exped.). 



15. Varanus prasinus Schleg. 

 Mimika R. (B. O. U. Exped.). 



S C I N C I D xB. 



16. Ltgosoma NOTOT.EXIA, sp. n. (PI. XXIX. figs. 1, 1 a.) 



Section Hhiulia. Body moderately elongate, limbs rather short ; the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half in the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril 

 pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 

 suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter as long as frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; 

 eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal in size ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; three pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper 

 labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening ; 

 no auricular lobules. 24 smooth scales round the body, those of the two vertebral 

 series much enlarged, more than twice as broad as long. A pair of large prseanals. 

 The adpressed limbs overlap. Digits rather short, feebly compressed ; subdigital 

 lamellae smooth, 18 under the fourth toe. Tail thick. Reddish brown above, with a 

 light, dark-edged dorso-lateral streak, and a broad blackish-brown vertebral streak 

 formed of confluent spots ; sides of head and body, and limbs blackish brown, with 

 white dots ; lower parts white. 



Total length 110 mm. 



Head 12 



Width of head 8 



Body 36 



Fore limb 14 



Hind limb 19 



Tail (reproduced) 62 



A single specimen from Launch Camp, Setekwa R. (Wollaston Exped.). 



