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Brown above, with dark brown cross bands or network, 

 the spots largest on the sides of the neck. Lower parts yellow- 

 ish or brownish; throat sometimes with brown longitudinal 

 lines. Length of head and body 90 mm.; tail 118 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Manado!); Aru Islands!; Goram; Sala- 

 watti; New Guinea! (Mafoor, Jobi, Dorei, Mansinam, Andai, 

 Hatam, Mt. Arfak, Sorong, Passim, Rubi, Humboldt Bay, 

 Ramoi, Kolokadi, Kapaor, Mt. Epa, Mimika river, Stekwa river. 

 Fly river); Schouten Islands (Mysore). 



32. Lygosoma nigrilabre Gunther. 



H'mulia iiigrolahris^ Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 166, pi. XVII fig. A. 

 Lygosoma nigrilabre^ Boulenger, Cat, Liz. Ill 1887, p. 245. 

 Lygosoma amabile^ F. Miiller, Verb. Ges. Basel X 1895, p. 837. 



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

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

 nasal; no supranasals; two superposed anterior loreals; fronto- 

 nasal twice as broad as long, in contact with the rostral; 

 praefrontals forming a suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the three anterior 

 supraoculars; six supraoculars, first more than twice as long 

 as second; eleven supraciliaries; frontoparietals longer than 

 interparietal; parietals in contact; no nuchals; fourth and fifth 

 or fifth and sixth labials below the eye. Body with 40 — 50 

 scales round the middle, laterals smallest, dorsals largest, keeled; 

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

 is contained one time and one fifth in that between axilla and 

 groin; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and a half the length 

 of head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the 

 shoulder, digits slender, compressed, fourth toe with 20 — 27 

 keeled lamellae below. 



Light brown above, with irregular dark brown spots ; a dark 

 brown dorso-lateral band spotted with yellowish, beginning at 

 the nostril; flanks spotted with brown; upper lip whitish, edged 

 with blackish-brown; limbs dark-spotted. Lower parts yellowish; 

 throat sometimes black-spotted. Length of head and body 

 95 mm.; tail 140 mm. 



Nom. indig. Ulowa (Toradja name). 



Habitat: Celebes (Manado, Posso!, Klabat Volcano, Sudara 

 Volcano, Tomohon, Matinang Mts. 2600 feet, Luhu 1000 — 1600 

 feet, Masarang Range!, Sadaonta, Tuwa, Mapane, Bua Praeng). 



