l82 



parietals and interparietal equal; parietals in contact; a pair 

 of temporals and three pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial below 

 the eye. Body with 24 smooth scales round the middle, the 

 two vertebral series enlarged, more than twice as broad as 

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

 limb is contained one time and a half in that between axilla 

 and groin; praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, about one time and 

 one third the length of head and body. Limbs short, over- 

 lapping when adpressed; digits short, compressed, fourth toe 

 with 18 smooth lamellae below. 



Reddish-brown above, with a broad blackish-brown vertebral 

 streak, sometimes broken up into spots; a light dorso-lateral 

 streak, edged below with blackish; flanks, sides of head, and 

 limbs blackish-brown, dotted with white; tail reddish-brown 

 with a series of dark spots on each side, the spots separated 

 by light vertical lines. Lower parts brownish-white, tail spotted 

 with brown. Length of head and body 48 mm.; tail (repro- 

 duced) 62 mm. ^ 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Stekwa river!, Lorentz river!). 



20. Lygosoma elegantulum Peters & Doria. 



Lygosoma (H'mtilia) eleganUilum^ Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova XIII 



1878, p. 344. 

 Lygosoma elegantulum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 235. 

 Sphenomorphus elegantulus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 



1912, p. 91. 



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

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

 no supranasals; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with 

 the rostral and with the frontal; latter as long as or slightly 

 shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight, 

 sometimes seven or nine supraciliaries; frontoparietals and 

 interparietal equal; parietals in contact; three or four pair of 

 nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body long; the 

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

 contained one time and three fifths to two times in that between 

 axilla and groin; 26 or 28 smooth scales round the middle, 

 the two vertebral series enlarged, laterals smallest; praeanals 

 enlarged. Tail very thick, about one time and a half the length 



