2l6 



supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal equal; parietals 

 in contact; no nuchals, but three or four scales on each side 

 in contact with the parietals; 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 two thirds to one 

 time and three fourths in the distance between axilla and 

 groin; 30 — 32 smooth scales round the middle, the two vertebral 

 series enlarged, laterals smallest; praeanals enlarged. Tail very 

 thick. Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed; digits short, 

 compressed, fourth toe with 16 — 17 smooth lamellae below. 



Blackish-brown above, vermiculated with yellowish-brown. 

 Lower parts yellowish; throat and sides spotted with dark 

 brown. Length of head and body 66 mm.; tail y/ mm. (re- 

 produced). 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Moroka in Bartholomew Range 

 2300 feet!). 



53. Lygosoma woUastoni Boulenger. 



Lygosoma WoUastoni^ Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX 1914, p. 261, 

 pi. XXX fig. I. 



Head small, flat; snout obtusely pointed; lower eyelid scaly; 

 ear-opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening, no 

 lobules. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; rostral narrow 

 and produced between the nasals; frontonasal a little more broad 

 than long, in contact with the rostral and with the frontal; 

 praefrontals small, separated; frontal broader than the supra- 

 ocular region, a little more long than broad, as large as fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first 

 supraciHary, the first supraocular and a small part of the second; 

 four supraoculars; seven or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals 

 and interparietal subequal; parietals in contact; a pair of slightly 

 enlarged nuchals; fifth and sixth upper labials below the eye. 

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

 the fore limb is contained one time and two thirds in that 

 between axilla and groin; 32 smooth scales round the middle, 

 the two vertebral series enlarged; praeanals enlarged. Tail 

 thick, one time and three fourths the length of head and 

 body. Limbs short, widely separated when adpressed; digits 

 short, compressed; 17 lamellae under the fourth toe. 



