8. LYGosoMmA, * 947 
opening ; no auricular lobules. 38 or 40 smooth scales round the 
middle of the body; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A pair of 
enlarged preanals. Tho hind limb reaches the axilla or a. little 
beyond the shoulder. Digits elongate, compressed ; subdigital 
lamelle smooth or feebly unicarinate, 20 to 25 under the fourth 
toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. 
Brown above, variously spotted or marbled with darker ; frequently 
a dorso-lateral series of light spots ; sides of neck sometimes with 
a large black spot; sides of body light-spotted; lower surfaces 
brownish white. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 139 Fore limb........ 20 
Head ....... See Hindlimb ...... 33 
Width ofhead .... 8 all ceases ate 84 
Body .........-.. 42 
Philippines, Borneo, Moluccas, Papuasia. 
a-c. Ad. Dinagat Island. A. Everett, Esq. Dee 
d. Ad. Borneo. L, L. Dillwyn, Esq. | P.}. 
e, Ad. Timor, 
f. Ad. Awek, Jobi. Marquis G. Doria bey 
g. Ad, Mansinam. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
31, Lygosoma jobiense. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) jobiensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 131. 
Eumeces aruensis, Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, p. 835, pl. xi. 
fig. c. 
Hinulia megaspila, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 128, pl. xxviii. 
? Hinulia papuensis, Macleay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. 8. Wales, ii. 1877, 
. 62, 
Bomecss jobiensis, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus, Genova, xiii, 1878, 
p. 349. 
Habit lacertiform, rather stout ; the distance between the end of 
the snout and the fore limb equals once and one third to once and a 
half the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. 
Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supra~ 
nasal; two superposed loreal shields behind the nasal ; rostral con- 
vex, narrowed and rounded behind, where it forms a suture with 
the frontonasal ; latter small, broader than long, sometimes in con- 
tact with the anterior angle of the frontal; prefrontals usually 
forming a median suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals and 
interparietal together, in contact with the two or three anterior 
supraoculars ; five supraoculars, first longest; ten to twelve ‘supra- 
ciliaries, first largest; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 
latter usually shorter than former ; parietals forming a short suture 
behind the interparietal; usually no nuchals ; sixth or seventh 
upper labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, 
a little smaller than the eye-opening; no auricular lobules, 38 to 
46 smooth scales round the middle of the body; dorsals largest, 
