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dark bar below the eye; tail with a broad brown streak on 

 each side. Lower parts yellowish, throat brownish. Length of 

 head and body 170 mm.; tail 270 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum, 

 Habitat: Ternate?; Ceram!; New Guinea (Fak Fak, Lobo, 

 Dorei, Andai!, Mansinam, Mafoor, Haas, Amberbaki, Jobi, near 

 Lorentz river 1360 M.!, Mimika river, Katow, Astrolabe Bay!, 

 Bukaua, Sogere 1750 feet. Five Bay, St. Joseph river, Haveri); 

 Aru Islands!; Kei Islands. 



Var. latifasciatwn Meyer. 



A form, somewhat differing in colour — reddish-brown 

 with transverse dark bands, wider than the interspaces and 

 forming complete rings on the tail — has been named L. lati- 

 fasciatum by A.B.Meyer (Mon. Berl. Ak. 1874, p. 131). The 

 head is dark brown with a yellowish spot between the eye 

 and the ear. This variety was found in New Guinea: 

 Dorei, Amberbaki , Erima on Astrolabe Bay. The specimen 

 from Erima showed 32 scales, 17 lamellae under the fourth 

 toe and reached a length of 180 mm. for head and body and 

 135 mm. for the tail. (Mehely, Termes. Fuzetek XXI, 1898, 

 p. 170). 



61. Lygosoma jeudei Boulenger. 



Lygosoma tigrina '), v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XVIII 1896/97 



p. 250, pi. VI, fig. I. 

 Lygosoma jeudii^ Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX 1914, p. 261. 



Head small, flat; snout long; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening 

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

 in the nasal ; no supranasals ; rostral reaching between the 

 nasals; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with the 

 rostral ; praefrontals forming a short median suture ; frontal 

 broader than the supraocular region, more long than broad, as 

 long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the first supraciliary and the two anterior supraoculars; 

 five supraoculars, last very narrow ; seven supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals a little shorter than the interparietal; parietals in 

 contact; no nuchals; fifth and sixth upper labials below the 

 eye, from which they are separated by a row of seven sub- 



i) Placed by v. Lidth de Jeude in the Section Hinulia. 



