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upper labials below the eye. Body with 40 scales round the 

 middle, dorsals largest, keeled, laterals smallest; the distance 

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

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

 praeanals enlarged. Tail not quite twice the length of head 

 and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches halfway between 

 the fore limb and the ear; digits long, compressed; fourth toe 

 with 25 keeled lamellae below. 



Brown above, with yellowish and blackish transverse spots; 

 flanks variegated with black; lips black-spotted. Lower parts 

 yellowish. Length of head and body 56 mm.; tail 105 mm. 

 Not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mafoor). 



35. Lygosoma anomalopus Boulenger. 



Lygosoma anomalopus^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1 890, p. 84, pi. XI fig. 4. 

 {^Lygosotna paradoxum^ Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien XL VI 1896, p. 13, Taf. I fig. 3. 



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

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

 nasal; no supranasals; two superposed anterior loreals; fronto- 



Fig. 75. Lygosoma anomalopus Blgr. 



nasal more broad than long, broadly in contact with the flat 

 rostral; praefrontals forming a suture; frontal as long as fronto- 

 parietals and parietals together, narrowed posteriorly, in contact 

 with the three anterior supraoculars; five supraoculars, first 

 and fourth largest; nine supraciliaries; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal equal; parietals forming a suture; no nuchals; fifth 

 and sixth or sixth and seventh upper labials below the eye. 

 Body with 38 smooth scales round the middle, laterals smallest; 



