8. Lye@osoma. 281 
fourth toe. Tail about once anda half the length of head and body. 
Bronzy olive above, with small dark brown spots, sometimes with a 
dark brown vertebral streak ; sides dark brown, light-dotted, often 
with a more or less distinct light streak from ear to groin; lower 
surfaces greenish or greyish, uniform or with darker dots. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 133 Fore limb........ 14 
Head ace eras ates 11 Hind limb........ 19 
Width of head .... 8 EBA, sce yis 5 fase 4.8 80 
Body ............ 42 
Tasmania; Kangaroo Island; Loyalty Islands; New Hebrides. 
a, Ad. Tasmania. R. Gunn, Esq. [P.}. 
b-d, e-h. Ad. Tasmania. Dr. Nae ca ] (Types.) 
t-k. Her. Kangaroo Island. 
i. Her. Loyalty Islands. Sir G. Grey a 
m. Her. Tana, New Hebrides. W. W. Perry, Esq. [P.]. 
n, Ad. —-? . Lord Derby [P.]. (One of the 
types of Mocoa ocellata.) 
o-p. Ad. & her, ——? H.M.S. ‘ Herald.’ 
q. Ad, —-? Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
75. Lygosoma guichenoti. 
Mocoa guichenoti, Gray, Cat. p. 80. 
trilineata, part., Gray, 7. ¢. p. 81. 
Lygosoma guichenoti, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 713. 
—— (Mocoa) guttulatum, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1881, 
83 
ae = platynotum, Peters, J. c, p. 84. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and one third to once and two thirds 
in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. 
Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced 
in the nasal, which is quite lateral; no supranasal; frontonasal 
forming a broad suture with the rostral, the width of which suture 
equals the width of the frontal, and a narrow one with the frontal ; 
latter shield narrower and not longer than the frontoparietal, in 
contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, 
second largest ; seven or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietal single ; 
a 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 projecting 
lobules. 26 to 30 scales round the middle of the body; dorsals 
largest and sometimes feebly striated. Praanals not or scarcely 
enlarged. The adpressed limbs overlap, meet, or fail to meet. 
Digits cylindrical; subdigital lamella smooth, 20 to 26 under the 
fourth toe. Tail about once and two thirds the length of head and 
body. Bronzy olive or brownish above, with or without small 
