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fore limb is contained one time and three fifths in the distance 

 between axilla and groin; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and 

 two fifths as long as head and body. Limbs strong, overlapping 

 when adpressed ; digits compressed distally, fourth toe with 

 20 smooth lamellae below. 



Golden brown above, with small blackish spots in two 

 longitudinal series and a light dorso-lateral band, bordered 

 beneath by confluent black spots; a whitish, black-edged spot 

 on the occiput ; lips brown-spotted. Lower parts whitish or 

 greenish, sometimes each scale with a brown lateral border; 

 chin with brown oblique bars; tail with longitudinal series of 

 brown spots. Length of head and body 52 mm.; tail 72 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Tawarin river!, Sermowai river!, 

 Bogadjim, Milne Bay!). — Ferguson Island. 



77- Lygosoma pulchrum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma pulchrum^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1903, p. 127, pi. XII 

 %• 3- 



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

 opening roundish, smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. 

 Nostril in a large nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more broad 

 than long, in contact with the rostral ; praefrontals meeting 

 or separated ; frontal small, as long as the frontoparietal, pointed 

 behind, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four 

 supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, about 

 twice as long as the interparietal; parietals in contact; three 

 to five pair of nuchals; four upper labials before the sub- 

 ocular. Body slender; the distance between the tip of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained one time and one fourth 

 in the distance between axilla and groin ; 24 smooth scales 

 round the middle, the two vertebral series largest, laterals 

 smallest ; praeanals strongly enlarged. Tail one time and a half 

 as long as head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches 

 the elbow; digits slender, fourth toe with 22 smooth lamellae 

 below. 



Black above, with five greenish-white longitudinal lines, be- 

 ginning at the rostral, the middle one ending before the hind 

 limbs; limbs reddish-brown, spotted with black; digits banded 

 with dark; tail red with a regular series of vertical bands on 



