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Show 734 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON ADDITIONS TO THE LIZARD [Dec. 4, head and body. Pale reddish brown above, with small darker spots, a slightly undulous blackish line on each side, and a series of blackish spots forming an interrupted vertebral line ; sides dark brown, with light dots ; lower parts whitish. millim. millim. Total length 88 Fore limb 8 Head 8 Hind limb 10 Width of head .... 4-5 Tail 50 Body 30 A single specimen from Mt. Benguet, N. Luzon, collected by Mr. Whitehead. Presented by the Subscribers to the Whitehead Exploration Fund. LYGOSOMA DECIPIENS. (Plate XLIX. fig. 3.) This small Scink so much resembles the preceding in coloration and in the scaling of the head that one would at first be inclined to refer it to the same species. It differs, however, in several important characters. The ear-opening is much larger and oval, nearly tAVO-thirds the size of the eye-opening. The rostral forms a much broader snture Avith the frontonasal.;. the frontal is slightly longer than the frontoparietal. The body is shorter, the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb once and one-fourth to once and one-third in the distance betAveen axilla and groin. The length of the hind limb equals the distance betAveen the nostril and the fore limb. There are 36 scales round the middle of the body. The tail tapers gradually from the base. As stated above, the coloration is much the same as in L. luzonense; there are, however, no other dark spots on the back but those forming the interrupted vertebral line ; a Avell-defined dark brown streak, continued as a dorso-lateral Une, extends along each side of the head and neck, parsing through the eye, and the temple and neck below it are white. millim. millim. Total length 80 Fore limb 10 Head 9 Hind limb 12 Width of head.... 5 Tail 45 Body 26 Both this species and the preceding connect the sections Hinulia and Homolepida, but should be referred to the former, as defined by mel. Two specimens were obtained by Mr. Whitehead on Isabella, N.E. Luzon. 1 Through an oversight, the section Hinulia is stated in my Catalogue to be characterized by distinct frontoparietals; L. acutum forms an exception in having these shields fused. |