NELLY DE ROOV. REPTILES. 1 39 



Fam. SCINCIDAE. 



16. Tiliqua gigas (Schn.). 



Boulenger, Cat. Liz. III 1SS7, p. 144. 



de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 157, fig. 68. 



Lorentz River 1909, 1 spec. 

 Kloof Camp 19 12, 1 spec. 



Seems to be rather rare in Dutch South New Guinea, as the Dutch Expéditions brought 

 home only two spécimens and in the descriptive list of reptiles from the last English expé- 

 dition to the Mimika River the species has not been mentioned at ail. It is found in two places of 

 Java and said to be found in Sumatra also ; the Moluccas and New Guinea are its usual habitat. 



17. Lygosoma lesueuri D. B. 



Boulexger, Cat. Liz. III 1887, p. 225. 



de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 174. 



Merauke 1904, 1 spec. 



Though this species was not yet known from New Guinea and is closely related to 

 L. dorsale Blgr., a New Guinea form, I brought the spécimen from Merauke to L. lesueuri D. B., 

 because it has four well developed supraoculars, vvhereas L. dorsale has three of thèse shields. 

 In other respects it also agreed with the description of L. lesueuri. This one occurs in 

 N. W. Australia and Cape York, two places, not far from Merauke on the south coast of 

 New Guinea. 



18. Lygosoma nototaenia Blgr. 



Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. XX 1914, p. 256, pi. XXIX fig. 1. 

 de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 181 



Lorentz River 1909, 1 spec. 

 Kloof Camp 191 2, 1 spec. 



Section Hinulia. Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening oval, smaller than 

 the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more broad than 

 long, in contact with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter as long as frontoparietals and 

 interparietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight 

 supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal equal; parietals in contact; a pair of temporals 

 and three pair of nuchals ; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 24 smooth scales 

 round the middle, the two vertébral séries enlarged, more than twice as broad as long; the 

 distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and a half in 

 that between axilla and groin ; praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, about one time and one third 

 the length of head and body. Limbs short, overlapping when adpressed ; digits short, com- 

 pressée!, fourth toe with 18 smooth lamellae below. 



Reddish-brown above, with a broad blackish-brown vertébral streak, sometimes broken up 

 into spots; a light dorso-lateral streak, edged below with blackish ; flanks, sides of head and limbs 

 blackish-brown, dotted with white, tail reddish-brown with a séries of dark spots on each side, 

 the spots separated by light vertical lines. Lower parts brownish-white, tail spotted with brown. 



