240 SCINCID A. 
border pointed; nasals not widely separated; frontonasal with 
straight posterior border; prefrontals forming a median suture ; 
frontal pointed posteriorly; four supraoculars; interparietal as 
large as frontoparietals, which are distinct ; a single anterior loreal. 
Ear-opening moderate, without lobules. 30 smooth scales round 
the body; laterals smallest, dorsals, especially the two vertebral 
series, largest. A pair of enlarged preanals. Limbs moderate. 
Brown above, with yellowish-grey spots forming transverse bands 
on the back and tail; throat with irregular brown lines. 
millim. millim. 
From snout to vent. 60 Fore limb ........ 14 
Head) e eiss cai ed 12 Dera | jel etek duet toe heaps 70 
Haas, New Guinea. 
22, Lygosoma consobrinum¥ 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) consobrinum, Peters §& Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 
xiii. 1878, p. 342. 
Allied to L. variegatum and L. jagortt. Rostral small ; fronto- 
nasal twice as broad as long ; prefrontals in contact mesially ; four 
supraoculars; frontoparietals distinct; interparietal very large. 
No auricular lobules. 30 to 32 smooth scales round the body ; 
laterals smallest, dorsals and ventrals of nearly equal size. A pair 
of enlarged preanals. The hind limb, stretched forwards, covers 
two thirds of the space between groin and axilla. Reddish brown 
above, variegated with oblique and irregular darker spots ; sides of 
body blackish, with undulated transverse whitish lines; yellowish 
inferiorly, throat with black spots or longitudinal lines. 
millim. millim. 
From snout to vent. 35 Fore limb ........ 9 
Head............ 8 Hind limb......... 18 
Batchian, Moluccas. 
23. Lygosoma jagorii. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) jagorii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 54. 
Hinulia variegata (non Peters), Giinth, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1878, p. 165, 
pl. xvii. fig. B. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained once and one third to once and a 
half in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. 
Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supra- 
nasal; rostral forming a straight suture with the frontonasal, which 
is broader than long and in contact with the frontal; latter as long 
as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first 
and second supraoculars ; four large supraoculars, followed by two 
