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frontoparietals and interparietal fused ; parietals forming a long 

 suture behind the latter shield ; a pair of nuchals and a pair 

 of temporals ; five upper labials anterior to the large subocular. 

 Body with 40 — 46 (34) scales round the middle, dorsals largest, 

 with 3 — 5 indistinct keels, laterals smallest; the distance 

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

 one time to one time and one third in the distance between axilla 

 and groin ; praeanals slightly enlarged. Tail nearly twice and 

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

 reaches between the axilla and the ear-opening; digits strong, 

 distal part compressed; fourth toe with 44 — 58 smooth 

 lamellae below. 



Olive-brown above, with lighter and darker scales, arranged 

 in irregular transverse lines; a black lateral band, beginning 

 at the eye and broken up into spots at its posterior part, 

 edged above with a longitudinal series of white spots ; flanks, 

 sides of tail and limbs with light spots. Length of head and 

 body 72 mm.; tail 171 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Halmahera!; Batjan; Ambon I. 



93. Lygosoma iridescens Boulenger. 



Lygosoma iridescens^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 9, pi. I fig. 4. 



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

 opening oval, as large as the palpebral disk, with two or three 

 small lobules anteriorly. Nostril between three small shields, 

 a nasal, a postnasal and a supranasal; frontonasal more broad 

 than long, forming a narrow suture with the rostral and with the 

 frontal; latter shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with 

 two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight supraciliaries; 

 frontoparietal single, fused with the interparietal ; parietals in 

 contact behind the latter; a pair of nuchals and a pair of 

 temporals; five labials anterior to the large subocular. Body 

 with 24 — 29 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals largest; 

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

 is contained one time and one fourth in the distance between 

 axilla and groin ; praeanals not enlarged. Tail more than twice 

 the length of head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb 

 reaches the axilla; digits moderate, depressed, the distal part 

 almost round ; fourth toe with 60 — 70 smooth lamellae below. 



