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sometimes with three or five keels, laterals smaller than dorsals; 

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

 is contained one time and one third in that between axilla 

 and groin ; praeanals a little enlarged. Tail one time and a 

 half the length of head and body or a little longer. Limbs 

 strong, the hind limb reaches the axilla or beyond ; fingers 

 four, toes five; fourth toe with 26 — 33 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown or olive above, uniform or spotted with black and 

 green, sometimes a black, light-edged lateral band with green 

 spots and a black vertebral line. Lower parts greenish-white. 

 Length of head and body (yj mm.; tail 117 mm. 



Habitat: Pulu Sukur near Flores!; Damma!; Halmahera; 

 Ternate; Pulu Kelang!; Ceram!; Ambon!; Saparua; Goram; 

 Kei Islands; Aru Islands; Misol; Salawatti; Waigeu!; Rawak 

 Island; New Guinea (Jobi , Ron!, Urville, Haas, Amberbaki, 

 Dorei, Mansinam, Arfak, Passim, Sorong, Fak Fak, Epa, Djamna, 

 Manokwari !, Jaga!, Mawes!, Lake Sentani!, Sermowai river!, 

 Humboldt Bay!, Lorentz river!, Mimika river!, Stekwa river, 

 Merauke!, Fly river, Katow, St. Joseph river, Fife Bay, Rigo, 

 Kelesi, Aroma, Bara Bara, Haveri, Inawi, Bogadjim, Astrolabe 

 Bay!, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen); Valise Island. — Ferguson 

 Island; Trobriand Island; Rossel Island; Queensland; Islands 

 in Torres Straits; Bismarck Archipelago; Admiralty Islands. 



The eggs measure 12 by 65 mm. 



Var. tricarinatum Meyer. 



Heteropus tricarhiatus^ Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 133. 



Heteropjis tricarmatus^ Doria, Ann. Mus. Geneva VI 1874, p. 340. 



Hetcroptis iricarinatiis^ Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) TI 1877, p. 35; C?) Ill 



1878/79, p. 48. 

 Lygosoma fuscum var. tricarinatum^ Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX 



1914, p. 258. 



The dorsal scales have three strong keels. Throat and sides 

 of neck blue with black longitudinal lines in males. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Dorei, Amberbaki, Haas, d'Urville 

 Island, Mimika river, Stekwa river, Lorentz river!). 



83. Lygosoma pullum (Barbour). 



Leiolt-pisma piilliim^ Barbour, Proc. biol. Soc. Washington XXIV 191 1, p. 1$; 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 93, pi. 2. fig. 3. 



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



