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Jaona!, Lake Sentani!, Etna Bay!, Lorentz river!, Stekvva 

 river!). — Trobriand Island; Ferguson Island. 



68. Lygosoma miangense Werner. 



Lygosoma (Ltolepisma) miangense^ Werner, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXVIl 

 1910, p. 45. 



Snout pointed; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear- 

 opening small, roundish. No supranasals ; praefrontals forming 

 a suture; frontal in contact with the two anterior supraoculars 

 four supraoculars; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct 

 parietals in contact behind the latter; three pair of nuchals 

 four upper labials before the subocular. Body with 24 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged ; 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb 

 slightly shorter than that between axilla and groin; praeanals 

 enlarged. Tail nearly one time and a half the length of head 

 and body. Limbs strong; digits angularly bent, fourth toe 

 with 21 smooth lamellae below. 



Golden above, with two dark brown stripes, beginning at 

 the rostral, continuing on the supraoculars and parietals along 

 the median enlarged scales to the hind limbs, where they 

 become lighter and indistinct ; a dark line from the eye to 

 the fore limb ; limbs light brown, indistinctly spotted with 

 yellowish; digits banded with dark; tail yellowish. Lower 

 parts greenish-white. Length of head and body 39 mm. ; tail 

 56 mm. (After Werner, not seen by me). 



Habitat: Pulu Miang, E. off Borneo. 



69. Lygosoma vittigerum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma vittigerum^ Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva (2) XIV 1895, p. 615. 



Snout very long, pointed ; lower eyelid with a transparent 

 disk; ear-opening small, roundish, no lobules. Nostril in the 

 nasal ; no supranasals ; frontonasal as long as broad, in contact 

 with the rostral and just touching the frontal, or praefrontals 

 just meeting; frontal narrow behind, as long as frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, or a little shorter, in contact with 

 the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first and last 

 longest; seven supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct; parietals in contact behind the latter; three or four 

 pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial large, below the eye. Body 



