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lateral band beginning at the eye; flanks black with a light 

 line from the upper lip through the ear to the groin; a short 

 light oblique line on the upper arm. Lower parts greenish 

 or whitish. Length of head and body 48 mm.; tail 82 mm. 



Habitat: Waigeu!; New Guinea (Djamna, Manokwari, 

 Sorong, lake Sentani!, Manikion river!, Liki!, Jobi, MiosKairu!, 

 Mios Korwar!, Sermowai river!, Jaona!, Koime river!, Begowre 

 river!, Kaiserin-Augusta or Sepik river 1570 M.!, Friedrich- 

 Wilhelmshafen, Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Bogadjim, Stephans- 

 ort, Oertzen Mts., Bara Bara, Moroka 2300 feet, Inawi, Albert 

 Edward Range 6000 feet). — Ferguson Island ; Trobriand 

 Island ; Bismarck Archipelago ; Admiralty Islands ; Caroline 

 Islands. 



96. Lygosoma mehelyi Werner. 



Lygosoma mivarii, part., Mehely, Termes. Fiizetek XXI 1898, p. 169. 

 Lygosoma mehelyi^ Werner, Zool. Anz. XXII 1899, p. 371. 



Differs from the preceding one on the following points: 

 Frontoparietal and interparietal fused, more long than broad ; 

 no auricular lobules; head higher. 



Brown above, with small black spots in a dark streak on 

 each side of the vertebral line; flanks with a brownish-black 

 band, confluent with the dark brown colour from the side of 

 the head, this band edged above with a white line or con- 

 fluent white spots, below with a white streak, beginning at 

 the mouth or the ear. Fingers and claws white. (Not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Stephansort, Bogadjim, Oertzen 

 Mounts, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, Sepik river 1570 M.). 



97. Lygosoma callistictum (Peters & Doria). 



Euprepes (Tiliqua) callistictus^ Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova XIII 



1878, p. 355. 

 Lygosoma callistictum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 295. 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear-opening oval, 

 vertical, with a few lobules anteriorly. Supranasals present, 

 small ; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with the 

 rostral and with the frontal ; latter rhomboidal, pointed behind; a 

 little shorter than the frontoparietal and interparietal together; 

 four supraoculars; frontoparietal single, fused with the inter- 

 parietal; parietals in contact; fifth or sixth upper labial below 

 the eye. Body with 28 scales round the middle, dorsals and 



