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Celebes (Gorontalo, Manado!, Posso!, Kema, Paloppo, Kandari, 

 Luhu!); Togian Islands; Sanghir Islands; Karakelang Islands!; 

 Salibabu Islands!; Ternate; Halmahera; Morotai!; Nusa Laut!, 

 Burn; Ambon!, Coram!; Goram; Kei Islands!; Aru Islands; 

 Timor Laut; Misol; Salawatti; Waigeu!; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Mafoor, Pulu Faor, Solo Bay!, Dorei, Rubi, Andai, Dorei Hum, 

 Kolokadi, Mt. Arfak, Sorong, Mansinam, Manokwari, Djamna, 

 lake Sentani!, Nacheibe!, Mavves!, lake Jamur!, Manikion river !, 

 Wendesi!, Jaona!, Kaiserin-Augusta river!, Tanah Merah Bay !, 

 Humboldt Bay!, Mimika river, Stekwa river, Utakwa river 

 2500 — 3000 feet, Lorentz river!, Tami river, Sattelberg, 

 Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Berlin- 

 hafen, Seleo Island, Five Bay); Schouten Islands (Mysore); 

 Mios Kairu!; Pegun!; Valise Island. — Ferguson Island; 

 Trobriand Island; Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; 

 Admiralty Islands; Santa Cruz; Banks; New Hebrides; 

 Polynesia. 



95. Lygosoma mivarti Boulenger. 



Lygosoma inharii^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 292, pi. XXIII fig. i. 

 Emoia mivarti^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 94. 



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

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

 short lobules anteriorly. Nostril between three small shields, 

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

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

 frontal ; latter almost as long as the frontoparietal, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, fused with the interparietal, 

 as long as broad ; parietals in contact behind the latter shield ; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals; four or five labials 

 before the large subocular. Body with 32 — 44 smooth scales 

 round the middle, dorsals largest, laterals smallest ; the distance 

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

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

 and groin ; praeanals not or feebly enlarged. Tail nearly twice 

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

 reaches the axilla or beyond ; digits moderate, roundish ; fourth 

 toe with 40 — 45 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown or olive above, with black spots, usually forming a 

 dark band on each side of the vertebral region ; a light dorso- 



