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spots, one pair on the parietals and one on the nuchals. Lower 

 parts white ; chin grey. Length of head and body 50 mm. ; 

 tail (reproduced) 56 mm. (Not seen by me). 

 Habitat: Celebes (Bone Mts. 3900 feet). 



75. Lygosoma nitens Peters. 



Lygosoma (Mocod) nitens^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 573; Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Geneva III 1872, p. 32, pi. IV fig. 2. 

 Lygosoma nitens^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 262. 



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

 opening minute. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; rostral 

 large ; frontonasal more broad than long, broadly in contact with 

 the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shorter than the fron- 

 toparietal, a little larger than the interparietal; four supra- 

 oculars ; frontoparietal single ; parietals in contact behind the 

 interparietal; no enlarged nuchals; fourth upper labial below 

 the eye, fifth largest. Body long, with 22 smooth scales round 

 the middle, the two median series enlarged ; praeanals enlarged. 

 Tail one time and two thirds the length of head and body. Limbs 

 strong, the hind limb reaches slightly beyond halfway between 

 axilla and groin. 



Green above, with a black lateral streak, beginning on the 

 supraoculars; flanks spotted with black and light green ; throat 

 with brown longitudinal lines. Length of head and body 29 mm.; 

 tail 47 mm. (Not seen by me). 



Habitat: Borneo (Kuching, Sarawak). 



76. Lygosoma miotis Boulenger. 



Lygosoma miotis^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XVI 1895, p. 29. 



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

 opening small, not larger than the palpebral disk, no lobules. 

 Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal slightly more 

 broad than long, broadly in contact with the rostral, narrowly 

 with the frontal ; latter as long as frontoparietal and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four 

 supraoculars; frontoparietal single, about as long as the inter- 

 parietal; parietals in contact behind the latter; three pair of 

 nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 24 (26) 

 smooth scales round the middle, the two vertebral series 

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



