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nuchals strongly bicarinate. Tail a little longer than head 

 and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the axilla ; 

 fourth toe with 38 lamellae below. 



Greenish-brown above, with yellowish lines on the back, a 

 median one from the rostral to the nape , continued to 

 the tail, and on each side a line from the supraciliary region, 

 above the ear, along the side of the back. Lower parts greenish. 

 Length of head and body 50 mm. ; tail 65 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Sorong, Erima, Astrolabe Kay!); 

 Valise Island. 



98. Lygosoma baudini (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Enmeces l>audinii, Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. V 1839, p. 653. 



Lygoso?na bandinil^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 296 (s. syn.). 



Emoia haudhtii^ Barbour. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 191 2, p. 94. 



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

 ear-opening oval, slightly larger than the palpebral disk, with- 

 out or with a few small lobules. Nostril between three shields, 

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

 broad than long, broadly in contact with the rostral and with 

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

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; seven 

 or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietal single, fused with the 

 interparietal; parietals in contact behind the latter; a pair of 

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

 the large subocular. Body with -^6 — 40 smooth scales round 

 the middle, sometimes dorsals with two or three keels, dorsals 

 largest, laterals smallest; the distance between the tip of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained one time and one sixth 

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

 groin ; praeanals not or feebly enlarged. Tail one time and a 

 half to one time and two thirds the length of head and body. 

 Limbs strong, the hind limb nearly reaches the elbow; digits 

 short, depressed, the distal part compressed; fourth toe with 

 30 — 38 smooth lamellae below. 



Olive-brown above, with metallic gloss ; sometimes a light 

 dorso-lateral line beginning above the eye; flanks dark brown 

 with whitish spots. Lower parts white or greenish. Length of 

 head and body 68 mm. ; tail 80 mm. 



Habitat: Buru; Ternate; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea (Fak Fak, 

 Pulu Faor, Jobi, Mafoor, Yule Island, Dorei, Mansinam, Andai, 



