298 SCINCIDE. 
shield; interparietal usually distinct, small, sometimes entirely 
absent ; parietals forming a median suture; a pair of nuchals and a 
pair of temporals border the parietals; sixth and seventh, or fifth 
and sixth, labials below the eye. Ear-opening rather large, oval, 
much larger than the transparent palpebral disk; no auricular 
lobules. 36 to 40 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth, 
or dorsals feebly quinquecarinate; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. 
Marginal preanals slightly enlarged. The hind limb reaches the 
axilla or the shoulder. Digits elongate, compressed; subdigital 
lamelle smooth, 32 to 40 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half 
to once and three fourths the length of head and body. Dark brown 
above, with darker and lighter dots, or with a black lateral band ; 
upper parts frequently uniform black; lower surfaces usually yel- 
lowish, rarely brown. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 298 Fore limb ........ 42 
CBG i scecneisaas wee 32 Hind limb........ 64 
Width of head .... 22 Tall sige we sons 170 
Body ......... fran 96 
Caroline Islands, New Ireland, Solomon, Banks’s, Fiji, and Samoa 
Islands. ie 
a Yg. _ Ruk Island, Carolines. Museum Godeffroy. 
6. Ad. Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [ 4 
e. Ad. Contrariété Island, J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 
Solomon Islands. 
d, e. Several spec.: Treasury Island, H. B. Guppy, Esq. [P.]. 
ad. & yg. Solomon Islands. 
fry. Ad. & yg. Santa Anna, H. B. Guppy, Esq. [P.]. 
Solomon Islands. 
h-t, Ad. & her, Vanua Lava Island. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 
kl. Her. Fiji Islands. E, A. Liardet, Esq. [P.}. 
m,n. Ad. Levuka, Fiji. H.MLS. ‘Challenger. 
o. Ad. Viti Levu. Museum Godeffroy. 
p-q. Ad, Samoa Islands. 
96. Lygosoma adspersum. 
Emoa atrocostata (non Less.), Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. 
p- 264. 
Eumeces (Mabouya) adspersus, Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Ween, \xii. i. 
1870, p. 340, pl. iv. fig. 1. 
Euprepes (Mabuia) parvisquameus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, 
160 
p. 160. 
Mabouia lawesii, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 297, pl. xlv. fig. a. 
Eumeces microlepis (non D. § B.), Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Ver, Ham- 
burg, ix. 1886, p. —, pl. ii. fig. 4. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and one fourth to once and one 
third in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderately 
elongate, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with an undivided 
