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each side. Lower parts greenish-white. Length of head and 

 body 38 mm.; tail 56 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Sermowai river I, Humboldt Bay!, 

 Moso river!, Jaona!, Albert Edward Range 6000 feet). 



78. Lygosoma subnitens Boettger. 



Lygosoma subnitens^ Boettger, Abh. Mus. Dresden Bd. VI 1896/97, p. 2. 



Snout short, pointed; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; 

 ear-opening roundish, small, as large as the palpebral disk or 

 a little smaller, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal ; a large post- 

 nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal much more broad than long, 

 broadly in contact with the rostral and touching the frontal ; 

 latter a little shorter than frontoparietal and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four 

 supraoculars, first longest, second broadest; six or seven supra- 

 ciliaries; frontoparietal single; interparietal distinct, behind 

 which the parietals are in contact; three large shields bordering 

 the parietals, followed by two broad nuchals ; fifth upper 

 labial below the eye. Body long, the distance between the 

 tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained about one time 

 and three fifths in the distance between axilla and groin ; 

 26 smooth scales round the middle, the two vertebral series 

 enlarged ; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and one fourth 

 the length of head and body. Limbs strong; digits compressed, 

 fourth toe with 19 — 20 smooth lamellae below. 



Bronze-brown above with two dark brown indistinctly black- 

 dotted streaks; sides with a blackish-brown, light-spotted band, 

 beginning above the ear and running posteriorly to beyond 

 halfway the tail ; labials indistinctly spotted with light and 

 dark; behind the interparietal a median longitudinal light spot; 

 limbs with light and dark dots; toes banded. Lower parts 

 whitish with golden gloss. Length of head and body 45 mm.; 

 tail 56 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Moroka 

 2300 feet!). 



79. Lygosoma stanleyanum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma sianleyanu/n^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 7, pi. I, 

 fig. 2. 



Snout short, obtuse ; lower eyelid with a transparent disk ; 

 ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. 



