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Brown above, uniform or with small blackish spots or irreg- 

 ular dark cross bands; a dorso-lateral series of light, black- 

 edged ocelli may be present; flanks speckled with dark brown 

 or with a broad black band from the eye to the hind limb, 

 the upper border of the band wavy; a dark streak through 

 the eye; sometimes three or five black spots on each side of 

 the anterior part of the body, the first above the ear; lips 

 spotted with brown; limbs dark-spotted, soles greyish-brown, 

 tail with a series of pale spots on each side, bordered with 

 black. Lower parts yellowish; throat sometimes with brown 

 spots or lines. Length of head and body 116 mm.; tail 183 mm. 



Habitat: Aru Islands; Salawatti!; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Djamna, Manokwari!, Sermowai river!, Koime river!, Kaiserin- 

 Augusta river!, Humboldt Bay, Lorentz river!, Mimika river, 

 Stekwa river. Fly river, Bara Bara, Vikaiku, St. Joseph river, 

 Mt. Victoria, Haveri, Moroka 2300 feet, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, 

 Berlinhafen, Erima, Oertzen Mts., Astrolabe Bay !; Valise Island). — 

 Ferguson Island; Trobriand Island; Bismarck Archipelago. 



The egg is cylindrical, whitish and measures 19 — 20 mm. by 

 9.5 — II mm. 



■i^'j. Lygosoma variegatum Peters. 



Lygosoma (Hinulia) variegatum^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 20. 

 Lygosoma variegatum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 246 (s. syn,). 

 Lygosoma kinabaliiensis ?^ Baitlett, Crocod. Liz. Borneo Sarawak Mus. 1895, p. 94. 

 Sphenomorphus variegatus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 90. 



Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; supraocular region 

 swollen; ear-opening large, oval, smaller than the eye-opening, 

 no lobules, Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; two super- 

 posed anterior loreals; frontonasal twice as broad as long or 

 broader, broadly in contact with the rostral; praefrontals 

 forming a suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals and par- 

 ietals together or shorter, in contact with the three anterior 

 supraoculars; six to eight supraoculars, first twice as long as 

 second; twelve or thirteen supraciliaries; frontoparietals a little 

 longer than the interparietal; parietals in contact; no nuchals; 

 fifth or sixth upper labial below the eye. Body with 38 or 

 40 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals largest, laterals 

 smallest; the distance between the tip of the snout and the 

 fore limb is contained one time to one and a third time in 



