512 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 
in a single nasal; no supranasal; a single anterior loreal (except 
in one of the specimens, which has a very small shield above it) ; 
rostral forming a broad, straight suture with the frontonasal, which 
is much broader than long; prefrontals forming a median suture ; 
frontal much narrowed posteriorly, as long as or shorter than fronto- 
parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and 
second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first longest; eight or nine 
supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 
former longer than latter; parietals forming. a suture behind the 
interparietal ; no enlarged nuchals; fifth upper labial largest and 
below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, nearly as large as 
the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. Scales smooth, or dorsals 
and laterals indistinctly pluricarinate, laterals smallest ; 40 scales 
round the middle of the body. A pair of enlarged preanals. The 
hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore limb or the 
axilla. Digits rather elongate, slightly compressed; subdigital 
lamellae smooth, 22 to 25 under the fourth toe. ‘Tail once and a 
half the length of head and body. Dark brown above, with strong 
metallic gloss; back black-spotted ; sides with black and whitish 
spots elegantly arranged; a black band on each side of the head, 
passing through the eye; sometimes a large, black, white-edged 
spot on each side of the neck; lower surfaces brownish white, 
clouded or longitudinally streaked with darker. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 1380 Fore limb........ 17 
ead oe a oats are 13 Hind limb........ 27 
Width of head 9 Tail (reproduced)... 68 
Body sande e wans 49 
Solomon Islands. 
a-d, Ad. & hgr. Faro Island. C. M. Woodford, Esq. [C.]. 
Ada: Page 302. Lygosoma albofasciolatum. 
c-e. Ad. & her. Faro Island, Solomon C,. M. Woodford, Esq. [C.]. 
Islands. ; 
Add :— Page 319. Lygosoma pellopleurum. 
The frontoparietal is single, much elongate, resembling a frontal 
(it was described as such by Hallowell) ; interparietal between four 
small parietals. 
a, Ad. Loo Choo Islands. H. Pryer, Esq. [P.]. 
Page 437. Diagnosis of the Suborder Rhiptoglossa, erase 
“ presence of a supratemporal bone.” 
