234 SCINCIDR. 
smooth lamelle under the fourth toe. Brown above, with a few 
smaller lighter and darker spots; lower surfaces pale brown ; lips 
with dark bars. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- Body............ 24 
produced) ...... 62 Fore limb........ 8 
Head. evsea vey 8 Hind limb ...... 11 
Width ofhead .... 45 
New Guinea. 
13. Lygosoma isolepis. (Piate XV. fig. 1.) 
Hinulia tenuis, part., Gray, Cat. p. 76. 
P 
Hinulia striatula (non Stemd.), part., Giinth. Zool. Ereb. §& Terr, 
Rept. p. 11. 
Body elongate, limbs rather short ; the distance between the end 
of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and two fifths 
to once and three fifths 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 or 
a little longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 
contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars ; 
eight or nine supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal dis- 
tinct, of equal length ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 
parietal ; one or two pairs of nuchals ; usually the fourth, sometimes 
the fifth, upper labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening 
stuboval, smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 30 or 
32, rarely 28, smooth scales round the body; laterals a little 
smaller, dorsals equal. <A pair of large preanals. The adpressed 
limbs fail to meet, or just meet. Digits short, feebly compressed ; 
subdigital lamelle tubercularly keeled, divided, 21 to 26 under the 
fourth toe. Tail thick, about once and two thirds the length of 
head and body. Brown above, with small dark brown spots, which 
are more crowded on the sides, forming a dorso-lateral band, 
and intermixed with whitish dots; the sutures of the labials dark 
brown; lower surfaces whitish. 
millim, millim 
Total length...... 198 Fore limb ........ 18 
Head .......... 16 Hind limb........ 25 
Width of head.... 11 Pail. ginieiewntes 123 
Body........05- 59 
Western Australia, 
a. Her. Nicol Bay. Mr. Duboulay [C.]}. 
b-0. Aa, & her. ~ Swan River. 
d-e. Ad. Australia, Lord Derby [P.]. 
