256 SCINCIDE. 
42. Lygosoma noctua. 
Scincus noctua, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 48, pl. iii. fig. 4; 
O’Shaughn. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 1878, p. 44. 
Oligosoma noctuum, Girard, U. 8. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 249. 
Lygosoma, vertebrale, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 487. 
Euprepes novare, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 47, pl. ii. f. 4. 
Mocoa novaree, Giinth. in Brenchley, Curacao, p. 403. 
Lygosoma (Lipinia) aurea, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 132 *. 
— (Mocoa) noctua, Peters §& Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, 1878, 
p. 847; O'Shaughn, Zool. Rec. 1878, Rept. p. 8. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and one fourth to once and three 
fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, — 
pointed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 
Nostril pierced in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal at least 
as long as broad, forming a suture with the rostral and with the 
frontal ; latter shield as long as or a little shorter than frontoparietals 
and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second 
supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first and fourth longest; eight 
supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, subequal ; 
parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; two or three 
pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening 
roundish, a little smaller than the eye-opening without project- 
ing lobules. 26 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals 
much larger than the others. A pair of enlarged prewanals. The 
adpressed limbs overlap. Digits cylindrical at the base, com- 
pressed at the end; subdigital lamelle smooth, 21 or 22 under the 
fourth toe. Tail a little longer than head and body. Golden brown 
above ; a whitish, brown-edged spot on the occiput, continuous with 
a light vertebral band edged on each side with brown spots; a dark 
brown lateral band or series of large spots, intermixed with pale 
dots ; lips brown-spotted ; lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 98 Fore limb ........ 12 
Head eisevs sioniews tare 10 Hind limb........ 16 
Width ofhead.... 6 Wad) secs Redkeahieeg 55 
Body saiweeeaiasesss 33 
Fiji, Friendly, Samoa, Society, and Sandwich Islands; New 
Guinea. 
a, Ad. Fiji. H.M.S. ‘ Herald.’ 
b-c, Ad. Tongatabu. ELMS. ‘Challenger,’ 
f-h. Ad. Tongatabu. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 
a-l, Ad. & hgr. Samoa. Rev, T. Powell [P.]. 
* Type (Dresden Mus, 310) examined. 
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