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Show 1887.] HERPETOLOGY OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 335 millim. Total length 135 Head 11-5 Width of head 7'5 Body 45-5 Fore limb 9 Hind limb 16 Tail 78 rp Three specimens from Faro Island. LYGOSOMA WOODFORDI, sp. n. Body elongate, limbs rather short; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout moderately elongate, truncate. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal; a single anterior loreal; rostral forming a broad straight suture with the frontonasal, which is broader than long ; prsefrontals forming a short median suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first supra-ciliary and the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, followed by a very small fifth, first longest; ten supraciliaries, first largest; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, former much larger than latter; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals ; nine upper labials, seventh below the centre of the eye; a series of rather large suborbitals separates the orbit from the labials. Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 34 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals very small. A pair of enlarged praeanals. The adpressed limbs just meet. Digits rather short, slightly compressed ; 18 smooth lamellse under the fourth toe. Dark brown above, with strong metallic gloss ; sides with curved or oblique black bars ; lower surfaces yellowish. millim. Total length 166 Head 19 Width of head 12 Body 87 Fore limb 24 Hind limb 3/ Tail (reproduced) ^0 A single specimen from Faro Island. LYGOSOMA CONCINNATUM, sp. n. Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and one fifth to once and two fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse; supraocular regions swollen. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal; a single anterior loreal (except in 23* |
