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Show 334 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [Mar. 15, lufoniformis, Blgr., R. guppyi, Blgr.1, Cornufer guppyi, Blgr., C. solomonis, Blgr., Ceratobatrachus guentheri, Blgr. Alu: - Corucia zebrata, Gray, Dendrophis solomonis, Gthr., Dipsas irregularis, Merr. In addition to these species, the following, new to the Solomons, were obtained:- REPTILIA. LEPIDODACTYLUS W O O D F O R D I , sp.n. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 1.) Closely allied to L. guppyi. Digits without distinct web. Tail a little depressed, rounded. Femoral and prseanal pores 25 altogether. Grey above, with zigzag black cross bands, six between the nape and the base of the tail; a black streak from the nostril to the neck, passing through the eye and above the ear; lower surfaces whitish. millim. Total length 78 Head 11 Width of head 7 Body 29 Fore limb 14 Hind limb 18 Tail 38 Faro Island. A single male specimen. LYGOSOMA SOLOMONIS, sp. n. Body elongate, limbs short; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fifths to once and two thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal; a single anterior loreal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a narrow suture with the rostral and with the frontal; latter shield about as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, latter a little smaller than former; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; four to six pairs of nuchals ; fourth or fifth labial below the eye and entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules, 24 or 26 smooth scales round the middle of the body, the two vertebral series largest. A pair of large pra_.anals. Limbs widely separated when adpressed ; the length of the hind limb equals the distance between the anterior border of the orbit and the fore limb. Digits short; subdigital lamellae smooth, undivided, 15 to 17 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, once and one third the length of head and body. Brown above, dotted with blackish ; pale brownish inferiorly, dotted with brown. 1 One of the specimens exeeeds the type (/. c. pl. ix.) in size, measuring 185 millim. from snout to vent. |
