302 SCINCID, 
the fourth toe. Tail thick and long. Greenish above, with brown 
cross bands ; a dark band from the eye to above the shoulder ; lower 
surfaces yellowish, brown-spotted. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail in- Bod yea Sas eas 156 
JULED) vos 6 sega 493 Fore limb........ 54 
Cad as: oo gece dew ges 37 Hind limb........ 78 
Width of head .... 27 
New Caledonia. 
a. Ad. N. Caledonia. 
102. Lygosoma albofasciolatum. (Priare XXIV.) 
Eumeces albofasciolatus, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) x. 1872, 
p- 870. 
Body elongate, limbs short ; the distance between the end of the 
snout and the fore limb is contained once and two thirds or once 
and three fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 
short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril between the nasal and 
a small supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, broadly in con- 
tact with the rostral and with the frontal; prefrontals small ; 
frontal as long as the frontoparietals and parietals together, in con- 
tact with the first and second supraoculars; five supraoculars, fifth 
very small; eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal 
distinct, latter smallest; parietals forming a suture behind the 
interparietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 
parictals ; sixth labial largest, below the eye, from which it is 
separated by a series of small scales. Lar-opening oval, smaller 
than the eye-opening, with a series of short lobules anteriorly. 34 
to 36 scales round the middle of the body, all smooth; dorsals 
slightly largest. Pracanals not enlarged. The limbs fail to meet 
when adpressed. Digits short, compressed ; subdigital lamelle 
smooth, 21 under the fourth toe. Dark brown above, with strong 
opaline gloss, with more or less distinct yellowish-brown cross 
bands; lower surfaces yellowish white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 315 Fore limb........ 38 
GSO) awinteo i satacers a 30 Hind limb ...... 50 
Width of head .... 21 Tail (reproduced) .. 155 
Body's sdevatea 130 
North Australia, New Ireland. 
a. Ad. N, Australia. G. Kretft, Esq. /P.]. (‘Type.) 
6. Ad. Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.}. 
