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the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 
parietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals bordering the 
parietals ; sixtli upper labial beneath the middle of the eye, and 
not larger than the others ; upper labials completely separated 
from the lower eyelid by a row of scales equal in size to the 
supraciliaries. Ear-opening oval, vertical, about one half of the 
size of the eye-opening, with li ve small lobules anteriorly. Thirty- 
three smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsal scales 
much larger than the laterals and ventrals, which are of equal 
size ; preanals not enlarged. The adpressed hind-limb overlaps 
the wrist ; digits moderate, compressed ; sub-digital lamella? 
twenty-three under the fourth toe. Tail rather short and stout, 
not much longer than the head and body. Colours — Above 
yellowish-brown, below creamy-white ; a series of vertical violet 
bars on the labials ; a violet band from the angle of the mouth, 
inclining inwards along the throat, and not reaching quite so far 
backward as the fore limb; a similar, but shorter and more 
indistinct, parallel band from the sixth upper labial; upper surface 
with seven narrow dark-blue longitudinal bands, which cease 
about half way along the tail, and correspond to the intersection 
of the series of scales ; a few similar, but less conspicuous bands 
between the limbs ; fifteen rather irregular broad dark brown 
transverse bands on the body continued for some distance down 
the sides ; outer surfaces of limbs with narrow dark blue longi- 
tudinal lines. 
Inches. 
Millim. 
Total length 
14-60 
... 372 
Length of head 
1-22 
31 
Width of head 
0*88 
22 
Length of body 
5-59 
... 142 
Length of fore limb . . . 
1-75 
44 
Length of hind limb 
2*35 
60 
Length of tail 
7*85 
... 199 
This Lizard belongs to the sub-genus limpet, and though 
undeniably closely allied to Dr. Gunther’s Eumeces albofasciolatus , 
hitherto recorded from Northern Australia, New Ireland, and 
the Duke of York and Solomon groups, still, putting aside 
the very distinct pattern of coloration, I consider that the 
differences cited sufficiently justify me in describing the species as 
These differences are as follows : — ( 1 ) The greater corn- 
new. 
parative length between the tip of the snout and the fore limb ; 
(2) the reduced number of supraoculars ; (3) the equality in size 
between the interparietal and either frontoparietal ;* (4) the 
non-enlargment of the sixth upper labial ; and (5) the distinct 
overlapping of the adpressed limbs. 
* This character is not prominently brought out in the figure of the 
head shields in the latest British Museum Catalogue. 
