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Show 126 MR. G. A. B O U L E N G E R O N [June 16, the tail, or with dark brown spots forming bars across the body or restricted to the sides; three or four large black spots, with white dots between them, may be present on each side of the neck; a black canthal and temporal streak sometimes present; lips uniform whitish, or blotched with brown or black ; lower parts whitish, throat sometimes blotched with dark brown. <S. ?. Total length 173 165 millim. Head 20 17 „ Width of head 14 9 Body 48 44 HFoirned lliimmbb 2470 2335 Tail 105 104 n J5 11 Several specimens from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. S. Meek. The nearest allies of L. milnense are L. concinnatum Blgr., from the Solomon Islands, and L. simum Sauv., from N e w Guinea. LYGOSOMA GRANULATUM. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) Connecting the Sections Hinulia and Otosaurus. Habit lacerti-form ; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and one third in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout very short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; a very small supranasal, between the frontonasal, the nasal, and the first loreal, which is single ; rostral forming a straight suture with the frontonasal, which is much broader than long and touches the anterior angle of the frontal; latter much narrowed posteriorly, a little longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the three first supraoculars; seven supraoculars, first more than twice as long as second, seventh very small; eleven supraciliaries, first largest; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, the former a little longer than the latter ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals, each parietal in contact with four scales; fourth, fifth, and sixth upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, as large as the eye-opening; tympanum scarcely sunk ; no auricular lobules. 36 scales round the middle of the body, laterals smallest, dorsals slightly larger than ventrals, dorsals and laterals rough with minute granular asperities. A pair of enlarged praeanals. The hind limb reaches the axilla. Digits elongate, compressed, obtusely keeled below; 20 lamellae under the fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the length of head and body. Pale reddish brown above, variegated with dark brown ; sides with large dark brown spots, some forming vertical bars; a white dot above the tympanum, another above the shoulder; sides below the large spots reticulated with dark brown |
