330 sCINCID. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ........ 80 Fore limb........ 75 
From snout to vent .. 32:5 Hind limb........ 10 
Mindanao and Gorontalo. 
139. Lygosoma scutirostrum. 
Lygosoma scutirostrum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1873, p. 743, and 
1874, p. 877, pl. —. fig. 6. ‘ 
Cophoscincus obscurus, O’Shaughn. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 
874, p. 35. 
Body much elongate, limbs weak; the distance between the end 
of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fifths to 
twice in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 
obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in the nasal; no 
supranasal ; frontonasal large, forming a suture with the rostral and 
with the frontal ; no prefrontals ; frontal shorter than frontoparietals 
and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second 
supraoculars, its anterior border obtusely angular ; four supraoculars ; 
seven supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 
subequal; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 
two or three pairs of nuchals; fourth upper labial below the 
centre of the eye. Ear covered with scales, its presence indicated 
by a depression. 20 or 22 smooth scales round the middle of the 
body ; dorsals largest. A pair of enlarged preanals. The length 
of the hind limb equals the distance between the eye and the fore 
limb. Fourth-toe slightly longer than third, with 9 or 10 smooth 
lamelle inferiorly. Tail thick, about once and a half the length of 
head and body. Brown above, with black dots sometimes arranged 
in lines along the series of dorsal scales; a more or less distinct 
dark brown lateral line; lower surfaces yellowish, lips and chin 
brown-dotted. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 108 Fore limb ...... 
Head: gascsasagees 9 Hind limb ...... 12 
Width of head...... 6 MBAS. <a paeGritanats 65 
Body svesciaceces 34 
Queensland. 
a-b, Ad. Port Bowen. Museum Godeffroy. 
ec. Ad. Queensland. (Type of Cophoscincus obscurus.) 
d. Ad. Queensland. H.MS. ‘ Challenger.’ 
140. Lygosoma marie. 
Anotis mariei, Bavay, Cat. Rept. N. Caléd. p. 29. 
Nannoscincus fuscus, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (4) x. 1872, p. 421, 
and in Brenchley, ‘ Curagoa, Rept. p. 406, pl. xxv., and Zool. Ree, 
1872, p. 68. 
