248 SCINCIDA. 
laterals smallest. A pair of large preanals. The hind limb reaches 
the wrist or the elbow. Digits moderately elongate, compressed ; 
subdigital lamelle smooth or obtusely keeled, 18 to 27 under the 
fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. 
Brown above; back uniform or with small scattered blackish spots 
or irregular, rather indistinct dark cross-bands; sides finely mottled 
with dark brown; three to five large blackish spots on each side, 
the anterior above the ear, the third above the shoulder; a more or 
less distinct blackish streak through the eye; lower surfaces yel- 
lowish ; throat sometimes with brown longitudinal streaks. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 226 Forelimb........ 28 
F@Ad. 2 i ane eo ewes 22 Hind limb ...... 44 
Width of head .... 15 Dall: fe coustegudle ed 130 
Body? sicaesaeaaeeas 74 
Papuasia, New Ireland. 
a-b, Ad. Ansus, Jobi. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
(As typical of Eumeces aruensis.) 
ce, Ad. Fly River. Rey. 8. Macfarlane [C.]. 
d-e, Ad, Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 
(Types of Hinulia megaspila.) 
32. Lygosoma acutum. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) acutum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 54. 
Habit lacertiform, slender; the distance between the end of the 
snout and the fore limb equals the distance between axilla and 
groin. Snout very long, pointed. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril 
pierced in the middle of a rather large nasal; no supranasals; two 
superposed anterior loreals ; frontonasal scarcely broader than long, 
forming a broad straight suture with the rostral ; prefrontals form- 
ing a median suture; frontal kite-shaped, a little shorter than the 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the three 
anterior supraoculars ; six supraoculars, first longest, third broadest ; 
supraciliaries numerous, and, with the exception of the anterior, 
very small; frontoparietals coalesced into a single shield; inter- 
parietal distinct, similar in shape to but smaller than the frontal; 
parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal ; no nuchals ; 
nine or ten upper labials, sixth and seventh or seventh and eighth 
below the eye, separated from the orbit by small scales, Ear- 
opening vertically elliptic, much smaller than the eye-opening, with- 
out lobules. 26 scales round the middle of the body, all perfectly 
smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest; on the nape, the scales of 
the two median series are transversely dilated. Two enlarged pre- 
anals. The adpressed hind limb reaches the shoulder. Digits long 
and slender, compressed, especially in their distal portion; fourth 
toe much longer than third ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 32 under the 
fourth toe. Tail once and two thirds the length of head and body. 
