8. LY@osoMA. 337 
% millim 
Total length ...... 154 Fore limb ........ 15 
Head secre o¥ wteneears 11 Hind limb........ 9 
Width of head .... 65 TD at sso: d's nies euee seve .- 62 
Body .scceeccueue 81 
Western Australia. 
a-e. Ad. : W. Australia.’ es. 
f. Ad. Swan River. (oe) 
g. Ad. Australia, J. 8. Bowerbank, Esq. 
149. Lygosoma miopus. (Prats XXVII. fig. 4.) 
Soridia miopus, Giinth, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xx. 1867, p. 49. 
Body much elongate ; fore limb represented by a minute tubercle, 
behind which is a short longitudinal groove; hind limb monodac- 
tyle. Snout cuneiform. Eye very smail. Lower eyelid with a 
transparent disk. Nasals forming a median suture. Head-shields 
in every respect similar to those of LZ. lineopunctulatum. 20 scales 
round the body. Hind limb a little shorter than the distance be- 
tween the ear and the fore limb. Pale olive above, with four very 
indistinct lines of minute blackish dots along the dorsal series of 
scales. 
From snout to vent 82 millim., hind limb 8. 
North-western Australia. 
a, Ad. Champion Bay. Mr. Duboulay (C.]. (Type.) 
150. Lygosoma, bipes. 
Rhodona bipes, Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1882, p. 292, pl. xvi. figs. 10-15. 
Body much elongate; fore limb absent; hind limb didactyle. 
Snout cuneiform. Eye very small. Lower eyelid with a trans- 
parent disk. Nasals in contact behind the rostral; no prefrontals ; 
frontal much broader than the supraocular region ; frontoparietals 
and interparictal fused into a single large shield, behind which the 
band-like parietals form a suture; third upper labial entering the 
orbit. Ear-opening punctiform. 18 smooth scales round the body. 
Two enlarged preanals. Outer toe more than twice as long as 
inner. Reddish brown above, lighter inferiorly ; two series of dark 
brown dots along the middle of the back; a broad dark brown 
lateral band. 
From snout to vent 57 millim., hind limb 10. 
Nicol Bay, North-western Australia. 
151. Lygosoma prepeditum. 
Soridia lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 90. : 
Soridia lineata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii, 1839, p. 386, and in Grey’s 
Trav. Austral. ii. p. 438, pl. iii. fig. 2; Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. 
(4) xii. 1873, p. 147. 
Preepeditus lineatus, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 787, 
Pholeophilus capensis, Smith, Ill, 8. Afr., Rept., App. p. 16. 
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