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eye whitish ; limbs and tail with black transverse bands. Lower 

 parts greenish or yellowish; throat sometimes with small black 

 spots; posterior part of gular sac and the gular fold black or 

 greyish. Length of head and body 230 mm. tail 650 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Rubi, Moaif!, Sermowai river!, 

 Lorentz river!, Mimika river, Stekwa river!). 



An egg, contained in a female specimen, measured 34 by 

 16 mm. 



15. Gonyocephalus godeffroyi (Peters). 



Lophura (Hypsilurus) Godeffroyi^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 707, Taf. ? 



fig. I. 

 Gonyocephalus godeffroyi^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 295 (s. syn.). 



Snout longer than the diameter of the orbit; canthus rostralis 

 not very sharp; supraciliary borders normally raised; occiput 

 concave; tympanum slightly larger than the eye-opening; cheeks 

 swollen in the males. Head-scales small, equal, keeled; occipital 

 enlarged; some very large flat scales below the tympanum; 

 ten to twelve upper and nine to eleven lower labials. Gular 

 sac moderate, without serrated edge, and covered with smooth 

 scales, posteriorly with very small keeled ones. Body com- 

 pressed; nuchal and dorsal crests subcontinuous, notched above 

 the shoulder; the former composed of strong scales, inserted 

 on a fold of the skin, which is covered with small keeled 

 scales; its height about the diameter of the tympanum, the 

 anterior spines lower, beginning at the occiput; the dorsal 

 crest higher, supported at the base by the processes of the 

 vertebrae. Females and young ones with low crests. Dorsal scales 

 small, equal, keeled, the points directed upwards; ventral scales 

 larger, strongly keeled. Tail compressed, with a crest on the 

 basal part and covered with keeled scales, the inferior largest ; 

 its length more than three times that of head and body. Limbs 

 long, covered with subequal, keeled scales, the hind limb 

 reaches between the orbit and the tip of the snout; third and 

 fourth fingers almost equal. 



Dark brown above, with lighter transverse bands, and 

 numerous black spots. Lower parts yellowish. Young ones olive 

 or greenish with black cross bands. Limbs and tail with blackish 

 bands. Length of head and body 235 mm.; tail 800 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Lorentz river!; Stephansort). — 



