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Brown above, flanks with a dark, yellow-cdgcd band, some- 

 times indistinct in the adult; lips whitish, black-spotted. Lower 

 parts whitish, sometimes brown-dotted. Length of head and 

 body 33 mm.; tail 48 mm. 



Habitat: Halmahera; Ternate; Batjan ; Obi; Ceram ; 

 Ambon; Kei Islands; New Guinea (Pulu Faor, Rubi, Lorentz 

 river!, Stekwa river, Bara Bara, Haveri, Fife Bay, Katow). — 

 Islands of Torres Straits. 



S6. Lygosoma curtum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma curtum^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 9. 



Snout very short, obtuse; lower eyelid with a transparent 

 disk; ear-opening roundish, a little smaller than the palpebral 

 di.sk, with a single lobule anteriorly. No supranasals ; fronto- 

 nasal nearly twice as broad as long, broadly in contact with 

 the rostral, narrowly with the frontal; latter as long as or a 

 little shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars; eight supraciliaries; frontoparietal single ; 

 interparietal distinct; parietals in contact behind the latter; a 

 pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals ; three upper labials 

 before the subocular. Body short and stout; the distance 

 between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained 

 one time and two fifths to one time and a half in the distance 

 between axilla and groin ; 26 scales round the middle, all smooth 

 or dorsals with three feeble grooves; praeanals not enlarged. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body. Limbs feeble, the 

 hind limb reaches the wrist; digits short, fingers four, toes 

 five; fourth toe with 23 — 25 smooth lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, uniform or with small lighter spots; 

 lips brown-spotted. Lower parts yellowish or greenish-white. 

 Length of head and body 37 mm. ; tail 45 mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mt. Victoria in Owen Stanley 

 Range!). 



Section Emoa Gray (fig. 88). 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk; tympanum distinct; 

 supranasals present. Rostral forming a suture with the fronto- 

 nasal; frontal not broader than the supraocular region. Prac- 



