8. Lya@osoma, 343 
orbit separated fron the upper labials by a series of large suboculars, 
Ear completely hidden. 20 smooth scales round the middle of the 
body; dorsals largest. A pair of enlarged preanals, Fore limb 
longer than hind limb, divided into three minute clawed tubercles, 
Tail thick, a little longer than head and body. Brown above, whitish 
inferiorly : a more or less distinct pale band across the occiput ; this 
band whitish in the young. 
millim, millim. 
Total length ...... 327 Fore limb ........ 6 
Head sissies caeaeus 16 Hind limb’........ 4 
Width of head .... 11 Pall syns sey nee nace 172 
Body ............ 139 , 
Eastern Australia. 
a-b, Ad. Gayndah, Museum Godeffroy. 
e. Ad. ‘ Brisbane. Museum Godeffroy. 
d-g. Ad., her., & yg. Queensland. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
h. Ad. Clarence River. G. Krefft, Esq, 
a Yg. New South Wales. G. Krefft, Esq. 
hk, Ad. ? W. Carruthers, Esq. [P.]. 
(Type of Chelomeles pseudopus.) 
158. Lygosoma truncatum. 
Coloscincus truncatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ae, 1876, p. 582, pl. ~. 
fig. 1. 
Limbs reduced to clawless undivided rudiments. Snout short, 
obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in the anterior part of 
a rather large nasal; no supranasal ; rostral produced between the 
nasals, forming a suture with the frontonasal, which also forms a 
suture with the frontal; prefrontals small; frontal as broad as 
long, forming a suture with the first supraciliary and with the first 
supraocular; three supraoculars; frontoparietals and interparietal 
distinct, subequal; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 
parietal; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 
parietal; a series of suboculars. Ear hidden. 20 smooth scales 
round the body. Median preeanals slightly enlarged. Grey-brown 
above, with four longitudinal series of dark dots; sides closely 
dotted with black. ; 
From snout to vent 42 millim., tail 36. 
Peale Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland. 
159. Lygosoma ophioscincus. 
Ophioscincus australis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 747. 
Limbless. Snout short, obtuse. Eye very small. Lower eyelid 
scaly. Nostril pierced in the anterior part of a large nasal; no 
supranasal ; rostral produced between the nasals, forming a suture 
with the frontonasal, which forms a broad suture with the frontal ; 
prefrontals very small and widely separated ; frontal broader than 
long, forming a suture with the first supraciliary and with the first 
