296 SCINCIDR. 
subocular. Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little larger than the 
transparent palpebral disk, usually with one or two small projecting 
lobules anteriorly. 87 to 40 scales round the middle of the body, all 
smooth ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Marginal praanals 
slightly enlarged. The hind limb reaches the elbow or the axilla, 
Digits moderately elongate, somewhat flattened except at the end ; 
subdigital lamellae smooth, 35 to 38 under the fourth toe. Tail 
about once and two thirds the length of head and body. Greyish 
or brownish olive above, with small darker and lighter spots; a 
more or less distinct blackish lateral band or series of spots on each 
side; lower surfaces yellowish or greenish white. 
millim. millim, 
Total length (tail re- Body aside seis ves 72 
produced) ...... 206 Fore limb ........ 34 
Heady secs ates 24 Hind limb........ 48 
Width of head .... 16 
Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, Papuasia, Cape York, Caroline and 
Santa Cruz Islands. 
a, Ad, Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 
(Type of Mocoa cumingii.) 
b-d. Ad. Dinagat Island. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 
e. Ad. Fly River, New Guinea. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 
f. Ad. —? Sir E. Belcher [P. ]}. 
93. Lygosoma baudinii. 
Mabouya baudinii, Gray, Cat. p. 95. 
Euprepes physics, Gray, J. c. p. 115. 
Eumeces baudinii, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 653. 
Euprepes physice, Dum. §& Bibr. p. 688; Doria, Ann. Mus, Genova, 
~ vi. 1874, p. 837. 
Emoa baudini, Girard, U.S, Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 263. 
Euprepes (Tiliqua) baudinii, Peters § Doria, Ann, Mus. Genova, xiii. 
1878, p. 3853. 
Eumeces beccarii (non Doria),, Sauvage, Bull, Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 
1878, p. 53, 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained once and one sixth to once and one 
third in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, 
obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 
Nostril pierced between three shields—a nasal, a postnasal,and a supra- 
nasal; frontonasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture 
with the rostral and a narrower one with the frontal; latter nearly 
as long as and narrower than the parietal, in contact with the first 
and second supraoculars; four supraoculars; seven or eight supra- 
ciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal fused to a single large 
shield ; parietals forming a long suture behind the latter; a pair of 
nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals; four labials 
anterior to the large subocular. Ear-opening oval, a little larger 
than the transparent palpebral disk. 36 or 38 (to 40) scales round 
