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Habitat: New Guinea (Bukaua in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland). ■ — 

 Ferguson Island; Queensland; Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon 

 Islands; Rossel Island; Caroline and Sta. Cruz Islands. 



109. Lygosoma rufescens (Shaw). 



Laccrta rufescens^ Shaw, Zool. Ill 1802, p. 285. 



Lygosoma rufescens Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 303 (s, syn.). 



Riopa rufescens^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 95. 



Snout short, obtuse ; lower eyelid scaly, sometimes with an 

 opaque disk; ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening, 



Fig. 92. Lygosoma rufescens (Shaw). 



with short lobules anteriorly. Nostril between the nasal and 

 a supranasal; frontonasal more broad than long, forming a 

 broad suture with the rostral and with the frontal; praefrontals 

 small ; frontal as long as or somewhat shorter or longer than 

 frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars; five supraoculars, last very small; eight 

 or nine supraciliaries, first largest; frontoparietals shorter than 

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

 of nuchals and a pair of temporals; fifth labial largest, below 

 the eye, separated from it by a series of scales. Body long, 

 the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb 

 is contained nearly twice in the distance between axilla and 

 groin; 28 — 30 scales round the middle, smooth or in young 

 specimens quinquecarinate, the two dorsal series largest; prae- 



