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dorso-lateral band beginning at the nostril, spotted with whitish; 

 flanks brown, white-spotted. Lower parts yellowish. Length 

 of head and body 46 mm.; tail 56 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Paris Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Kina Balu!). 



18. Lygosoma minutum Meyer. 



Lygosoma (Ilinulia) minuta^ Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 132. 

 Lygosoma minutum^ Boulenger, C.it. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 233. 



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

 much smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the 

 nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact 

 with the rostral and with the frontal; praefrontals very small; 

 frontal shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, 

 in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; 

 seven supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal subequal; 

 parietals in contact; nuchals present, passing gradually into 

 the vertebral scales; fourth and fifth upper labials largest and 

 below the eye. Body moderately long, with 22 smooth scales 

 round the middle, dorsals largest; praeanals a little enlarged. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body. Limbs moderate, 

 just meeting when adpressed; fourth toe with 15 smooth 

 lamellae below. 



Brown above, with a few small lighter and darker spots; 

 lips with dark bars; a dark brown dorso-lateral streak may 

 be present; sometimes a light transverse blotch on the nape 

 and base of the tail. Lower parts pale brown. Length of 

 head and body 36 mm.; tail 50 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Dorei, Sermowai river!, near Tami 

 river!, Moroka 2300 feet!, Bogadjim on Astrolabe Bay). 



19. Lygosoma nototaenia Boulenger. 



Lygosoma nototaenia^ Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX 1914, p. 256, 

 pL XXIX, fig. I. 



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

 smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal; 

 no supranasals; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with 

 the rostral and with the frontal; latter as long as frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the two anterior 

 supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight supraciliaries; fronto- 



