8. Ly@osoma,. 279 
eye-opening, with two or three very small, scarcely projecting, 
obtuse lobules on the anterior border. 28 to 30 scales round the 
middle of the body; dorsals tri- or quadricarinate; lateral scales 
slightly smaller than dorsals. Preanals not enlarged. The ad- 
pressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. Digits subcylindrical ; sub- 
digital lamelle smooth, 28 to 30 under the fourth toe. ‘Tail about 
once anda half the length of head and body. Olive or brown 
above, uniform, or with darker dots and one or two darker bands 
‘along the back; a broad dark brown band along each side of the 
head, neck, and body ; usually a whitish streak from the ear to the 
groin; upper surface of tail usually with angular dark markings 
pointing backwards ; lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 132 Fore limb ........ 12 
ead ion guega ee ak 11 Hind limb........ 20 
Width of head .... 7 Pad a a seacrenerid tas 81 
Body icda% ceeds 40 
New Caledonia. 
a-b, Ad. & her. Noumea. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 
e-g. Ad. N. Caledonia. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 
h-i. Ad. N. Caledonia ?*. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 
(Types of Euprepes haplorhinus.) 
73. Lygosoma trilineatum. (Prats XXI1. fig. 2.) 
Mocoa trilineata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 81. 
Tiliqua trilineata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 291. 
Lygosoma duperreyi, Dum. § Bibr. v. p.715; A. Dum. Cat. Méth. 
Rept. p. 167. 
Euprepes duperreyi, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 47. 
Habit lacertiform, body much elongate; the distance between 
the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half 
to twice and a half in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 
short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 
Nostril pierced in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal forming a 
suture with the rostral, the width of which suture is considerably 
less than the width of the frontal, and a narrower one with the 
frontal; latter shield as long as or shorter than the frontoparietal, 
in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, 
second largest; five or six supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single; a 
very small interparietal, behind which the parietals form a suture ; 
a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth 
upper labial largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, 
about as large as the transparent palpebral disk, without or with 
* T have strong reason to believe that the locality ‘ Fiji’ appended to the 
type specimens of Zuprepes haplorhinus, Mocoa micropus, Hinulia tetragonurus, 
and Nannoscincus fuscus is erroneous, and that the specimens were procured in . 
New Caledonia. 
