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scaly; ear-opening smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. 

 Nostril in the nasal ; no supranasals ; a single anterior loreal ; 

 frontonasal nearly twice as broad as long, broadly in contact 

 with the rostral; praefrontals forming a suture; frontal as long 

 as frontoparietals and parietal together or a little longer, in 

 contact with the three anterior supraoculars; five supraoculars; 

 first largest, last small; nine to eleven supraciliaries, first 

 largest ; frontoparietals in contact with the third supraocular, 

 longer than the interparietal ; parietals in contact behind the 

 latter; a pair of temporals and a pair of large nuchals or no 

 nuchals at all ; three upper labials before the subocular. Body 

 short, with 30 — 32 scales round the middle, smooth, or dorsals 

 feebly tricarinate, dorsals largest, laterals smallest ; the distance 

 between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained 

 one time or one and one third time in the distance between 

 axilla and groin ; praeanals feebly enlarged. Tail one time and 

 a half to one time and three fourths the length of head and 

 body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the shoulder or 

 beyond ; digits long and slender, strongly compressed distally, 

 fourth toe with 33 — 42 smooth lamellae below. 



Variable in colour. Brown above, uniform or with a light, 

 dark-edged dorso-lateral streak, meeting its fellow at the base 

 of the tail; some dark brown spots forming cross bars on the 

 back or the sides in females; males with three or four large 

 black spots with white dots between them on each side of 

 the neck; a black loreal and temporal streak; lips yellowish- 

 white or blotched with dark. Lower parts yellowish-white; 

 throat sometimes spotted with dark brown. Length of head 

 and body 80 mm.; tail 140 mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Milne Bay ! {iy^es, oi L. milnense). — 

 Ferguson Island ! ; St. Aignan Island !, S. of Ferguson Island, 

 d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago; Rossel Island!, Louisiade Archi- 

 pelago. 



28. Lygosoma sanctum Dum. & Bibr. 



Lygosotna sancta^ Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. V 1839, p. 730. 



Lygosoma sanctum^ M. Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Raise N. O.-Ind. I 1890/91,?. 171^ 



' pi. XIV, fig. 4. 

 Sphenomorphjis saiutus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 90. 



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



