8. LYGosOMA. 3038 
103. Lygosoma rufescens. 
; Eumeces oppellii, Gray, Cat. p. 93. 
Scincus auratus, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 181. 
Lacerta rufescens, part., Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 285. 
Scincus rufescens, Merr. Tent. p. 71. 
Euprepis rufescens, Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. 1837, p. 182; Peters, Mon. 
Berl, Ac, 1864, p. 49. 
Eumeces oppellii, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 656. 
Mabouia macrura, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, p. 48. 
Euprepes opellii, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 44. 
Eumeces uniformis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 133; Peters & 
Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 350. 
brunneus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1877, p. 65. 
Mabouia uniformis, Macleay, l.c.  ~ ; 
Eumeces rufescens, Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. 1874, p. 334; 
Peters §& Doria, l. ec. p. 850. 
Euprepes (Tiliqua) cingulatus, Peters § Doria, 1. c. p. 352. 
Body elongate, limbs short; the distance between the end of the 
snout and the fore limb is contained once and two thirds to twice 
in the distance between axilla and groin in the adult, once and one 
third to once and a half in the very young. Snout short, obtuse. 
Lower eyelid usually. scaly, sometimes with an undivided opaque 
disk. Nostril between the nasal and a small supranasal; fronto- 
nasal broader than long, broadly in contact with the rostral and 
with the frontal ; prefrontals small; frontal usually as long as or a 
little shorter than the frontoparietals and parietals together, some- 
times a little longer, in contact with the first and second supra- 
oculars ; five supraoculars, fifth very small; eight or nine supra- 
ciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct ; interparietal distinct, 
larger than the frontoparietals ; parietals forming a suture behind 
the interparietal; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border 
the parietals ; fifth labial largest, below the eye, from which it is 
separated by a series of small scales. Ear-opening oval, smaller 
than the eye-opening, with a series of short lobules anteriorly. 28 
to 30 scales round the middle of the body; dorsals, especially the 
two vertebral series, largest; scales usually all smooth; in some 
young specimens the dorsals quinquecarinate. Praanals not en- 
larged. The adpressed limbs fail to meetin the adult, just meet in 
the very young. Digits short, compressed; subdigital lamelle 
smooth, 16 to 19 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, about once and 
a half the length of head and body. Brown above, with strong 
opaline gloss, with or without more or less distinct dark transverse 
bands; young blackish brown, with yellowish transverse lines on 
the body and tail; lips frequently with more or less distinct black 
vertical bars, most distinct in the young, in which they are cou- 
tinued as V-shaped bands on the throat; lower surfaces yellowish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 358 Fore limb........ 31 
Head ..........-- 31 Hind limb ...... 41 
Width of head .... 20 Tall: siccccaxace aes . 215 
Body ......+-+-5- 112 
