254 SCINCIDA. — 
a. Ad. Santa Anna Island. 1H. B. Guppy, Esq. [P.]. 
b-g. Ad. ‘Treasury Island. HB. Guppy, Bag, (Pl | (aypes.) 
h, Ad. Treasury Island. H. B. Guppy, Esq. [P. ]. 
% Ad, Shortland Islands. H. B. Guppy, Esq. P.). 
38. Lygosoma virens *. 
' Lipinia virens, Peters, Sitsb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1881, p. 81. 
Very closely allied to L. anolis, from which it differs in having 
30 scales round the body, and 13 lamelle under the dilated ae 
of the fourth toe. 
South-east New Guinea. 
39. Lygosoma semperi *. 
Lygosoma (Lipinia) semperi, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1867, p. 18. 
Less slender in habit than ZL. pulchellum. Likewise with a 
transparent palpebral disk and a large roundish ear-opening. Four 
supraoculars ; frontal less narrowed posteriorly. 24 scales round 
the body, dorsals much the largest. The hind limb covers hardly 
two thirds of the space between axilla and groin. Fourth toe little 
longer than third. Digits, especially the toes, slightly dilated in 
the basal portion; 15 lamelle under the depressed portion of the 
fourth toe. Golden above; two black bands commence on the 
supraocular regions, become gradually narrower on the back, and are 
lost on the tail ; another similar band on each side, beginning on the 
nasal and passing through the eye and above the ear ; lower surfaces 
metallic green. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 105 Fore limb ........ 11 
From snout to vent. 40 Hind limb........ 14 
Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
40. Lygosoma pulchellum. (Prate XVII. fig. 1.) 
Lipinia pulchella, Gray, Cat. p. 84. 
Euprepes pulchellus, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 48. 
Habit lacertiform, slender; the distance between the end of the 
snout and the fore limb is contained once and one fifth in the 
distance between axilla and groin. Snout very long and pointed, 
much depressed. . Lower ey -clid with an undivided transparent disk, 
Nostril pierced in the middle of a rather large nasal ; no supranasal ; 
anterior loreal as deep as the nasal ; frontonasal a little longer than 
broad, forming a broad straight suture with the rostral ; prefrontals 
forming a median suture ; frontal small, produced into a. very narrow 
interorbital portion, its length somewhat exceeding that of the 
frontoparietals and interparietal together ; it is in contact with the 
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* Type examined. 
