292 SCINCIDE. 
88. Lygosoma mivarti. (Prare XXIII. fig. 1.) 
Habit lacertiform; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained once to once and one fourth in the 
distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, pointed. 
Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced 
between three small shields—a nasal, a postnasal, and a supranasal ; 
frontonasal broader than long, broadly in contact with the rostral 
and with the frontal; latter nearly as long as but smaller than the 
frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 
four supraoculars ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and inter- 
parietal fused into a single large shield; parietals forming a long 
suture behind the latter; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 
border the parietals ; five (exceptionally four) labials anterior 
to the large subocular. Ear-opening oval, about as large as the 
transparent palpebral disk, with two or three very short obtuse 
lobules anteriorly. 34 to 38 scales round the middle of the body, 
all smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Praeanal scales not 
or scarcely enlarged. The hind limb reaches the axilla or a little 
beyond the shoulder. Digits moderately elongate, subcylindrical ; 
subdigital lamelle smooth, 40 under the fourth toe. Tail about 
once and three fourths the length of head and body. Brownish or 
olive above, with small black spots, sometimes forming a band on 
each side of the vertebral zone; a light dorso-lateral band; sides 
deep black, with a white streak extending from the upper lip to the 
groin, passing through the ear ; a white oblique streak on the arm; 
lower surfaces greenish white. 
millim. millim, 
Total length...... 130 Fore limb ..... woe 18 
GAG: 2 scteacsicacciar-aie 13 Hind limb ........ 26 
Width of head.... 8 Oil, 9 ieccetarsiecuaeoe 82 
Bod Yicg even or 35 
Admiralty Islands. 
a. Several spec. Wild Island. HELMS. ¢ Challenger.’ 
Named in honour of Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S. 
89. Lygosoma cyanogaster. 
Mabouya carteretii, Gray, Cat. p. 95. 
Scincus cyanogaster, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 47, pl. iii. 
fig. 8 
Eumeces carteretii, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 651. 
Emoa cartereti, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 263. 
Euprepes (Mabuya) carteretii, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 183; 
Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, p. 889 ; Peters § Doria, Ann. 
Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 358. 
? ig simillimus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1877, 
p. 69. 
Habit lacertiform, the distance between the end of the snout 
