_ 8, Lye@osoma. 289 
parietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four 
supraoculars ; five or six supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, fol- 
lowed by a small interparietal ; parietals forming a median suture ; 
a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; four 
labials anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening oval, smaller than 
the transparent palpebral disk, with a few small obtuse lobules. 
80 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth, or dorsals and 
laterals feebly tricarinate. Praanals not enlarged. The hind limb 
reaches the elbow. Fingers four, toes five; subdigital lamelle 
smooth, 25 to 30 under the fourth toe. Olive above, with or with- 
out lighter black-edged dots; a white streak along the upper lip to 
the ear, and another from the ear to the shoulder, sometimes con- 
tinued along the side of the body; a whitish spot on the hinder 
side of the base of the thigh ; lower surfaces greenish white; throat 
bluish in the male, spotted or longitudinally streaked with black. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 100 Fore limb ........ 13 
Head shin tenses 11 Hind limb........ 19 
Width ofhead .... 7 Bail: “asiage eh auc 56 
Body sve cise 33 
Queensland. 
a. Ad. Port Essington. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. (Type of 
Carlia melanopogon.) 
b. Ad. Peak Downs. Museum Godeffroy. 
c-e. Ad. North-Australian Expedition. Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.]. 
Lygisaurus foliorum, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, 
p- 77, from Brisbane, is probably a Lygosoma allied to the pre- 
ceding. It is founded on a specimen measuring 73 lines from snout 
to vent. 
86. Lygosoma nove-guinez. 
Lygosoma (Carlia) novee-guines, Meyer, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1874, p. 182. 
Carlia macfarlani, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xix. 1877, 413. 
Heteropus (Carlia) melanopogon, Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 
xiii. 1878, p. 364. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and one fourth to once and a half in 
the distance between axilla and groin. Snoutshort, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid with a very large transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the 
nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 
broad suture with the rostral and a narrow one with the frontal ; 
latter shield a little shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with 
the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars 3 Seven or eight 
supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; interparietal distinct ; parietals 
forming a median suture; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 
border the parietals; three, rarely four, upper labials anterior to 
the subocular. Ear-opening roundish, much smaller than the trans- 
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