244 



^ distance between axilla and groin; praeanals feebly enlarged. 

 Tail one time and a half to one and two thirds as long as 

 head and body. Limbs strong; the hind limb reaches the 

 axilla or the shoulder; fingers four, toes five; fourth toe with 

 30 — 32 smooth lamellae below. 



Blackish-brown or olive above, iridescent, uniform or with 

 indistinct, small, paler spots; some of the scales edged with 

 black; an indistinct light line from the posterior corner of the 

 eye passing above the ear and bordered below by a dark 

 band; flanks blackish or olive with pale spots. Lower parts 

 of body and limbs dirty white, or greenish, sometimes with 

 blackish spots on the breast ; chin, throat and lips black, some- 

 times bluish. Length of head and body 76 mm.; tail 120 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Lake Sentani!, Inawi in Mekeo 

 district!). 



85. Lygosoma novae-guineae Meyer. 



Lygosoma (Carlia) novae-guineae^ Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 132. 

 Lygosoma novae-guineae^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 289 (s. syn.). 

 I iolepisma novae-guineae^ Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXIII 1898, 



p. 359- 

 Leiolepisma novae-gtiineae^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 



1912, p. 93. 



Snout short; lower eyelid with a large transparent disk; 



ear-opening roundish, much smaller than the palpebral disk, 



with triangular lobules all round its border. Nostril in the 



nasal ; no supranasals ; frontonasal more broad than long, broadly 



in contact with the rostral, narrowly with the frontal; latter 



shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two anterior 



supraoculars; four supraoculars; seven or eight supraciliaries; 



frontoparietal single; interparietal distinct; parietals in contact; 



a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals; three or four upper 



labials before the subocular. Body with 24 — 28 smooth scales 



round the middle ; the distance between the tip of the snout 



and the fore limb is contained one time and one fourth to 



one time and a half in the distance between axilla and groin; prae- 



"" anals not enlarged. Tail one time and a half the length of 



head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the wrist ; 



fingers four, toes five; fourth toe with 21 — 25 smooth lamellae 



below. 



