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the two vertebral series enlarged ; praeanals enlarged. Tail 

 thick, one time and a half the length of head and body. Limbs 

 short, widely separated when adpressed; digits short, com- 

 pressed; fourth toe with 12 or 13 lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, dotted with yellowish-brown; frontal 

 and part of the frontoparietals yellowish ; lips dark brown. 

 Lower parts yellowish, throat, sides and tail spotted with 

 dark brown. Length of head and body 55 mm.; tail (repro- 

 duced) 60 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



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



57. Lygosoma solomonis Boulenger. 



Lygosoma solomonis ^)^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 510, pi. XXIII fig. 4. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XVIII 1897, p. 697. 



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

 a little 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 ; praefrontals 

 small and separated ; frontal broader than the supraocular 

 region, about as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, 

 in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supra- 

 oculars ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals a little larger than 

 the interparietal; parietals in contact; four to six pair of 

 nuchals; fourth or fifth labial entering the orbit. Body long, 

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

 is contained one time and three fifths to one time and two 

 thirds in that between axilla and groin; 24 or 26 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series largest; 

 praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, one time and one third the 

 length of head and body. Limbs short, not meeting when 

 adpressed; digits short, fourth toe with 15 — 17 smooth lamellae 

 below. 



Brown above, dotted with blackish. Lower parts pale brownish, 

 dotted with brown. Length of head and body 57 mm.; tail 78 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bara Bara on Milne Bay!). — 

 Solomon Islands. 



i) Placed by Boulenger in the Section Hinulia. 



