304 SCINCID.. 
Moluccas, Papuasia, Cape York. 
a. Ad. Ternate. 
b, Ad. Amboina. 
e, Ad, New Guinea. Leyden Museum. 
d-, Her. & yg. Fly River. Rey. 8. Macfarlane [C.]. 
k, Ad. Islands of Torres Straits. Rev. 8. Macfarlane | C.]. 
“P, g-s,t, Ad. & Murray Island. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.}. 
gr. 
u. Ad. Cape York. Hr. Daimel (C.]. (Type 
of Mabouwa macrura.) 
104. Lygosoma durum. 
Tiliqua dura, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 190. 
? Cophoscincus simulans, Vaillant, Bull. Soc, Philom. (7) viii. 1884, 
p. 170, and Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 349, pl. xii. fig. 3. 
Body stout, tetragonal. Lower eyelid scaly. Snout narrow, 
with vertical sides. Upper head-shields longitudinally rugose. A 
pair of supranasals, in contact mesially ; preefrontals in contact with 
the supraoculars ; frontonasal in contact with the frontal, which is 
elongate ; four supraoculars; frontoparietals and interparietal dis- 
tinct; a pair of nuchals ; temporal region covered with large keeled 
scales ; fourth labial below middle of orbit. The ear-opening appears 
as a small slit behind the free border of one of the posterior tem- 
poral scales. 30 scales round the body; laterals unicarinate, the - 
keels directed obliquely upwards and backwards; dorsals very 
strongly tricarinate. Four large marginal preanals. The hind 
limb reaches the elbow. Above dark rusty, the head and a broad 
interscapular cross band, also a median dorsal serie’ of spots, and 
five or six rather large dorso-lateral spots, chestnut; beneath and 
upper lip rusty yellow. 
From snout to vent 50 millim. 
West Africa. 
105. Lygosoma fernandi. 
Tiliqua fernandi, Gray, Cat. p. 110. 
Tiliqua fernandi, Burton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 62; Peters, Mon. 
Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 372. 
Plestiodon harlani, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. ii. 1845, p. 170. 
Euprepis striata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. vii. 1854, p. 98, and Tr. 
Amer. Philos. Soc. (2) xi. 1857, p. 74, pl. iii. fig. 1; A. Dum. 
Arch. Mus. x. pl. xv. fig. 1. 
‘ harlani, Hallow. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc, (2) xi. p. 75, pl. iii. 
2. 
ee (Tiliqua) elegans, Fischer, Oster-Progr. Ak. Gymn,. Hamb. 
1883, p. 3, pl. —. figs. 12-15. 
leoninus, Fischer, Abh, Naturw. Ver. Hamb. viii. 1884, p. 7. 
Tiliqua nigripes, F. Muiller, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 704, 
Body elongate, cyclotetragonal, limbs moderate; the distance 
between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained about 
