18; 



or longer still; ten supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interpar- 

 ietal subequal; parietals in contact; three or four pair of 

 nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 28 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series very broad, 

 laterals smallest ; the distance between the tip of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained one time and two fifths or 

 one time and three fifths in that between axilla and groin ; 

 praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and a half the length of 

 head and body. Limbs moderate, slightly overlapping; digits 

 compressed, fourth toe with 20 keeled lamellae below. 



Pale brown above, with brown spots or undulated cross 

 bands; a dorso-lateral series of dark brown spots. Lower parts 

 brownish-white; throat spotted with brown, the spots some- 

 times confluent into lines. Length of head and body 58 mm.; 

 tail 87 mm. 



Habitat: Ceram!; New Guinea (Katow!, Andai, Beaufort 

 river!, Mimika river!, Stekwa river!. Fly river); Schouten 

 Islands (Mysore); Kei Islands. 



26. Lygosoma moszkowskii Vogt. 



Lygosoma moszkoivskii^ ^^ogt, Sitz. ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin Xo. 6, 1912, p. 357. 



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

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

 nasals; one anterior loreal; frontonasal as broad as long, in 

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

 as the frontoparietals; five supraoculars; seven supraciliaries; 

 frontoparietals a little longer than the interparietal; parietals 

 in contact; a pair of small nuchals and a pair of temporals; 

 fifth and sixth upper labials largest, below the eye. Body 

 slender, covered with 28 smooth scales, the two vertebral 

 series largest; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and a half 

 the length of head and body. Limbs not meeting when ad- 

 pressed; digits moderate, fourth toe with 18 lamellae below. 



Blackish-brown above, snout yellowish ; lower labials with 

 vertical stripes. Lower parts yellowish. Length of head and 

 body 31 mm.; tail 45 mm. (After Vogt, not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea. 



27. Lygosoma aignanum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma aignanum^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1898, p. 921, pi. LVII, fig. l. 

 Lygosoma milnense^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1903, p. 125, pi. XII, fig. i. 



Snout long and pointed or short and obtuse; lower eyelid 



