167 



Lower parts yellowish-white; sometimes small brown spots on 

 the throat. Length of head and body 80 mm.; tail (repr.) 

 88 mm. (Not seen by me). 



Habitat:? New Guinea (Sepik river). — Philippines. 



Note: This species probably does not occur in the Indo- 

 Australian Archipelago. It seems to me, that the specimens 

 captured in Dutch New Guinea (see Vogt, op. cit. I9i2,p. 356), 

 belong to another species, as the author gives a few characters, 

 in which the three animals differ from L. ciuningi: five supra- 

 oculars; praefrontals in contact; 41 scales round the body. 



Section Parotosaurus Boulenger. 



This section connects Otosanrns and Hinulia. 



Lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening large, no auricular lobules; 

 supranasals present, very small. Frontal not broader than the 

 supraocular region; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct. 

 Praeanals enlarged. Limbs strong, pentadactyle. 



Key to the In do-Australian species. 



A. 36 scales round the body, laterals and dorsals 

 granulate; 7 supraoculars; no nuchals; tympanum 



slightly sunk 3. i^. granulatum p. 167. 



B. 50 smooth scales round the body; 9 supraoculars ; 



no nuchals; tympanum slightly sunk 4. Z. anncctcns p. 168. 



C. 40 smooth scales round the body ; 7 supraoculars ; 



three pair of nuchals; tympanum deeply sunk. . 5. L. miinikanum p. i6g. 



3. Lygosoma granulatum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma granidatuni^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1903, p. 126, pi. XII 

 fig. 2. 



Snout very short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening 

 large, oval, as large as the eye-opening, tympanum slightly 

 sunk, no auricular lobules. Nostril in the nasal; supranasal 

 present, very small, between the frontonasal, the nasal and 

 the first loreal, which is single; frontonasal much more broad than 

 long, forming a straight suture with the rostral and just touch- 

 ing the angle of the frontal; latter slightly longer than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, narrowed posteriorly, in 

 contact with the three anterior supraoculars; seven supraoculars, 

 first more than twice as long as second, seventh minute; eleven 



