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is contained one time and one fourth in the distance between 

 axilla and groin; 24 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals 

 largest; praeanal scales enlarged. Tail thick, one time and 

 one fourth to one and one fifth the length of head and body. 

 Limbs strong, overlapping, the hind limb a little longer than 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb; 

 fourth toe with 22 smooth lamellae below. 



Reddish-brown above, with four longitudinal series of darker 

 spots, two on the back and one on each side, beginning 

 behind the eye. Lower parts lighter. Length of head and body 

 35 mm.; tail 40 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Liang Kubung!). 



14. Lygosoma maindroni Sauvage. 



Lygosoma (HiniUia) maindroni^ Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) III 1878, p. 55- 

 Lygosoma maindroni^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 239. 



Snout short; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening oval, smaller 

 than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal ; no 

 supranasals; rostral with a pointed upper border; a single 

 anterior loreal; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with 

 the rostral ; praefrontals forming a suture ; frontal as long as 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, pointed behind, in 

 contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; 

 ten supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 equal; parietals in contact; five pair of nuchals; sixth upper 

 labial below the eye. Body slender, the distance between the 

 tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and 

 one third in that between axilla and groin ; 30 smooth scales 

 round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged, laterals 

 smallest; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and a fourth to 

 one time and three fifths the length of head and body. Limbs 

 strong, the hind limb reaches the elbow; digits slender, com- 

 pressed, fourth toe with 28 smooth divided lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, with wavy transverse lines of yellowish 

 spots on the back and tail; sometimes a dorso-lateral series 

 of blackish spots; lips with dark bars. Lower parts yellowish; 

 throat with irregular or longitudinal dark brown lines. Length 

 of head and body 60 mm.; tail 75 mm. 



