8. LY@osoMA. 297 
the middle of the body, all smooth, or dorsals more or less distinctly 
bi- or tricarinate; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Marginal pre- 
anals not or but slightly enlarged. The hind limb does not quite 
reach the elbow. Digits rather short, somewhat flattened except at 
the end; subdigital lamellae smooth, 30 to 34 (to 38) under the 
fourth toe. Olive-brown above, with strong metallic gloss; sides 
black, spotted with whitish. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 106 Fore limb ........ 15 
Head Se needs 14 Hind limb........ 21 
Width ofhead .... 9 Tail (reproduced) .. 54 
Body sasicse sa wesc 38 
Celebes, Moluccas, Papuasia. 
a. Ad. Mansinam. Marquis G. Doria /P.]. 
6. Ad. Mafor. Marquis G. Doria tpt 
94. Lygosoma singaporense. 
Eumeces (Mabouya) singaporensis, Steindachn. Sitzd. Ak. Wien, xii. 
i, 1870, p. 341, pl. iv. fig. 2. 
Habit lacertiform. Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with 
an undivided transparent disk. Supranasals present, separated by the 
frontonasal ; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal as long 
as frontoparietal; four or five supraoculars; eight supraciliaries ; 
frontoparietal single (?) ; interparietal distinct ; a pair of nuchals; 
sixth upper labial largest and bordering the eye. Ear-opening 
moderate, roundish, without lobules. 34 smooth scales round the 
middle of the body. Marginal preanals slightly enlarged. The hind 
limb reaches nearly the axilla. Yellowish grey above; some of the 
scales of the flanks much lighter. 
Singapore. 
95. Lygosoma nigrum. 
Eumeces niger, Hombr. § Jacg. Voy. au Péle Sud (Astrolabe et 
Zélée), Rept. p. 11, pl. iv. fig. 2. 
Emoa nigrita, Cian U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 268. 
Euprepes (Mabuya) niger, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 449. 
? Euprepis longicaudis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1877, 
p. 68, 
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 long, obtusely acuminate. 
Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced 
between three shields—a nasal, a postnasal, and asupranasal; fronto- 
nasal as long as broad, or a little broader than long, forming a broad 
suture with the rostral, and usually a narrow one with the frontal ; 
latter shield as long as and a little narrower than the frontopurietal, in 
contact with the first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars ; 
seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals fused into a single large 
