í16 ) 
rupted along the middle of the back and on the fore-tail W-shaped. Bene- 
ath yellowish-white, on the tail darker. j 
In its whole appearance surprisinely resembling (7. geckoides SPIx, 
figured by Dr. STEINDACHNER !) (KONOPICKY). 
9. Gehyra mutilata, Wirawm. 
Three female specimens from near Berlinhafen and the Seleo Island. 
(0uite typical, but the snout once and two thirds the diameter of the 
orbit. 
10. Lepidodactylus lugubris, D. £ B. 
Two adults (d k 9) from the neighbourhood of Friedrich- Wilhelms- 
hafen and one young from the Seleo Island. 
Ín all respects guite typical. 
Fam. SCINCID 4. 
11. Lygosoma jobiense, Mrv. 
A pretty specimen Írom Berlinhafen. 
Length of head and body 86 mm., the reproduced tail 97 mm. It is 
worthy of notice that arow of dilated shields are developed on the lower 
surface of the reproduced part of tail in the median line ; 42 smooth scales 
round the middle of the body ; subdigital lamelle obtusely keeled, 24 un- 
der the fourth toe. 
(Coloration. Copper-brown above, with dark wavy eross-bars on the 
body. Along the sides of the neck and back one irregular row of dark blot- 
ches smaller behind, among which are one above the tympanum, one be- 
hind it and one above the axilla, but these blotches are not so distinct as 
in GÜNTHER "s figure ?). Lower surface dirty yellowish-white, sides of throat 
with two distinct longitudinal streaks and a paler on in the middle. 
12. Lygosoma smaragdinum, LEss. 
A very fine specimen from Berlinhafen. 
It may be remarked that the frontonasal do not form a suture 
with the frontal and that round the middle of the body there are 25 (! 
scales. 
(oloralion. Pea-green above, much lighter as in Dr. ScHLEGpL"S hand- 
ba ) 
1 Novara Exped., Rept., Wien 1869. p. 15, tab. II. fig. 3. 
2) Proc. Zool. So0e. of London, 1877, tab. XXVIII. 
