12. rriporonotus.—18. rnuMECESs. 365 
1. Tribolonotus nove-guinesx. 
Tribolonotus nove guiness, Gray, Cat. p. 101. 
Zonurus nove guinex, Schley. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Phys. i. 1834, 
p. 218. : 
Tribonotus nove-guiness, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 866, pl. lvi. 
Posterior border of head straight, armed with six points; head- - 
shields strongly striated ; four supraoculars ; two pairs of parietals, 
posterior largest and forming a median suture behind the inter- 
parietal; first upper labial very small, second very large, third and 
fourth entering the orbit; a large azygos postmental. Tympanum 
as large as the eye-opening. The large bony dorsal shields form 
eleven transverse series to sacrum inclusively, each composed of 
four shields, those of the outer series forming a very strong, curved 
spine ; the space between the bony shiclds occupied by small, soft, 
keeled granules; sides granular, with scattered small trihedral 
tubercles ; gular and veutral scales imbricate, keeled. A pair of 
large shields cover the prwanal region. The hind limb reaches 
nearly the axilla. Fore limb covered with large, imbricate, strongly 
keeled scales, hind limb with spinose tubercles. Subdigital lamella 
smooth. Tail a little compressed, as long as head and body; above 
with large bony tubercles alternating with cross rows of small 
keeled scales ; inferiorly with cross rows of subequal, strongly keeled 
scales. Brown, lighter inferiorly. 
millim millim 
Total length ...... 156 Fore limb........ 27 
Head: says tranares 24 Hind limb ...... 33 
Width of head 17 Wail ox igiwcee bred 76 
Body ......+.e05 56 
New Guinea. 
a, Ad. New Guinea. Leyden Museum. (One of 
the types.) 
13. EUMECES *. 
Mabuya, part., Fitzing. N. Classif. Rept. p. 23. 
Euprepis, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 161. 
Eumeces, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 36. 
Eumeces,’Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. 1835, ii. p. 288; Peters, Mon, Berl. 
Ae. 1864, p. 48; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 121; 
Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mez., Rept. p. 418. ; 
Plestiodon, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 697; Gray, Cat. Inz. p. 90. 
Lamprosaurus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 206. 
Eurylepis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soe. Beng. xxiii. 1854, p. 739. 
Mabouia, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 82. 
Palatine bones not meeting on the median line of the palate ; 
* Plestiodon multivirgatum, Hallow. Proc. Ac. ioe 1857, p. 251. Humeces 
ivirgatus, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 45.—Kansas. 
pectin Eileen ie Baird, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1858, p. 256. Humeces inor- 
natus, Cope, J. c.—Platte-river valley. 
