8. LY@dsoMA. 239 
the fourth toe. Pale brown above, with brown spots or irregular 
undulated transverse bands; a dorso-lateral series of darker brown 
spots; lower surfaces brownish white, throat spotted with brown. 
; millim, millim. 
Total length (tail re- we: BODY ustecsicvisselatege 45 
produced) ...... 105 Fore limb ........ 15 
Head . nscale ieee es 18 Hind limb........ 21 
Width ofhead.... 8 
Papuasia. 
a-b. Ad. & yg. Katow, 8. New Guinea. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
20. Lygosoma rufum. (Pzare XV. fig. 3.) 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and two fifths in the distance between 
axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril 
pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal; rostral forming a gently 
curved suture with the frontonasal, which is broader than long; 
inner angles of prefrontals meeting; frontal nearly as long as 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two 
anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, followed by a very small 
fifth ; nine or ten supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals and 
interparietal distinct, former longer than latter; parietals forming a 
suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; fifth upper labial 
below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than 
the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 32 smooth scales round the 
middle of the body; laterals smallest, dorsals, especially the two 
vertebral series, largest. A pair of enlarged preanals. The ad- 
pressed limbs slightly overlap. Digits rather short, compressed ; 
subdigital lamella smooth, divided, 20 under the fourth toe. Red- 
dish brown above, variegated with darker and lighter, brownish 
white inferiorly. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 108 Fore limb ........ 16 
Head ............ 14 Hind limb........ 22 
Width of head .... 9 Tail (reproduced).. 48 
Body's. sgeet cus 46 
Aru Islands, Papuasia. 
a, Ad. Wokan. H.M.S. ‘ Challenger.’ 
21. Lygosoma maindroni. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) maindroni, Sauvage, Bull. Soc, Philom. (7) iii. 
1878, p. 55. 
Lower eyelid scaly. Snout rather short. Rostral large, its upper 
