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distance between the end 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; a pair of enlarged praeanals. 

 Tail as long as head and body. Limbs short, the hind limb 

 reaches the wrist, or just touches the fore limb; digits com- 

 pressed at the end, with smooth lamellae below, 18 — 25 under 

 the fourth toe. 



Yellowish above, with four black longitudinal bands, the 

 median pair beginning at the supraoculars, the lateral at the 

 eyes, or dark brown with three light stripes on the back; lips, 

 sides of neck, and limbs brown-spotted; digits with dark cross 

 bars; tail brown-spotted, the spots sometimes forming short 

 vertical bars on each side. Lower parts sometimes with brown 

 longitudinal lines between the series of scales. Length of head 

 and body 49 mm.; tail 46 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Manado!, Dumoga besar, Kema!,Buol!, 

 Bungi, Sosso, Macassar!); Sanghir Islands (Siao!). 



III. Lygosoma relictum Vincig. 



Lygosoma (Siaphos) relictum^ Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XII 

 1892, p. 524. 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear covered with 

 scales, its presence indicated by a depression. Nostril in the 



Fig. 95. Lygosoma relic twn Vincig. 



nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal in contact with the rostral 

 and the frontal; praefrontals small, separated; frontal longer 

 than its distance from the tip of the snout ; four supraoculars; 

 frontoparietal single, as long as the interparietal; parietals 

 large, forming a short suture behind the interparietal; a pair 

 of temporals and three pair of nuchals; fourth upper labial 

 below the centre of the eye. Body long ; 20 — 22 smooth scales 

 round the middle of the body ; praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, 

 longer than head and body. Limbs short, not meeting when 



