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Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 

 Habitat: New Guinea (Mt. Victoria in Owen Stanley Range !). 



22. Lygosoma schultzei Vogt. 



Lygosoma CHimiliaJ schultzei^ Vogt, Sitzber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin IX 191 1, 

 p. 4161. 



Snout pointed; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening almost as 

 large as the eye, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal; no supra- 

 nasals; a single anterior loreal; frontonasal broadly in contact 



Fig. 72. Lygosoma schultzei Vogt. 



with the rostral, which reaches far posteriorly; praefrontals 

 forming a suture; frontal longer than the interparietal, pointed 

 posteriorly; five supraoculars; seven supraciliaries; frontopar- 

 ietals a little shorter than the interparietal; parietals in contact; 

 four pair of nuchals; six upper labials, fourth below the eye, 

 five lower labials. Body slender, with 20 — 22 scales round the 

 middle, the two vertebral series largest; praeanal scales strongly 

 enlarged. Tail thick, a little longer than head and body. Limbs 

 short, not meeting when adpressed; digits well developed, 

 fourth toe with 12 lamellae below. 



