8. LyG@osoma, 839 
the interparietal; one or two pairs of nuchals; fifth and sixth 
upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than 
the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 34 smooth scales round the 
middle of the body, the two vertebral series very broad. A pair of 
slightly enlarged preeanals. Limbs not meeting when adpressed. 
Digits short, compressed ; subdigital lamellae smooth, frequently 
divided. Tail thick, once and three fourths the length of head and 
body. Brown above, with small darker or lighter spots ; a blackish 
lateral band, edged with yellowish, extends from the eye to the 
groin; a blackish bar below the eye; lower surfaces yellowish, 
throat blackish brown. 
moillim. millim 
Total length ...... 420 Fore limb ........ 31 
Head jee eek cexees 23 Hind limb......... 47 
Width of head .... 16 PAE or < seracs siybe ay sans 270 
Body .......---45 127 
New Guinea; Ceram. 
Var. latifasciatum. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) latifasciata, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 181. 
Elania annulata, Sawvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 59. 
Reddish brown above, with transverse blackish-brown bands, 
wider than the interspaces between them; these bands form com- 
plete rings on the tail: head dark brown, with a yellowish spot 
between the eye and the ear. 
New Guinea. 
153. Lygosoma isodactylum. 
Eumeces isodactylus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 93, pl. xiii. fig. a. 
Body much elongate, limbs very weak; the distance between the 
end of the snout and the fore limb is contained thrice and a half in 
the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid scaly. Nasal rather large; no supranasal, but a suture 
extends from the nostril to the loreal ; rostral produced posteriorly 
between the nasals, forming a suture with the frontonasal ; latter 
shield much broader than long, forming a broad suture with the 
. frontal; prefrontals small, widely separated ; frontal broader than 
the supraocular region, a little shorter than the frontoparietal and 
interparietal together, in contact with the first and second supra- 
oculars; four supraoculars ; six supraciliaries, first and last largest ; 
frontoparietals fused into a single shield ; interparietal distinct ; 
parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; 
fifth labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening an oblique 
slit. 32 scales round the middle of the body, subequal, perfectly 
smooth. Preanals not enlarged. The fore limb, when stretched 
forwards, reaches the ear; the length of the bind limb - contained 
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