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oculars, the second and fourth of these large and wedged in 

 between the fourth and fifth and fifth and sixth upper labials. 

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

 fore limb is contained one time and three fifths in that 

 between axilla and groin; 34 smooth scales round the middle, 

 the two vertebral series largest ; praeanals slightly enlarged. 

 Tail broad and flat at the base, angular, nearly one time and 

 a half the length of head and body. Limbs short, not meeting 

 when adpressed; digits short, compressed; fourth toe with 18 

 lamellae below, which are mostly divided. 



Pale brown above, with reddish-brown transverse bands, 

 broader than the interspaces ; first band on the head behind 

 the frontal, covering the supraocular region, the occiput and 

 the nape, followed by eight bands on the back and fourteen 

 or fifteen on the tail; cheeks whitish; a dark vertical stripe 

 below the eye, passing on the lower labials and continued 

 longitudinally to slightly beyond the ear-opening. Limbs 

 reddish-brown. Lower parts whitish. Length of head and body 

 61 mm. ; tail 87 mm. 



Type-specimen {L. tigrina Lidth) examined in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Astrolabe Bay!, Bogadjim, 

 Sattelberg). 



62. Lygosoma tornieri Vogt. 



Lygosoma tornieri^ Vogt. Sitz. ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin N^. 9 191 1, p. 417- 



Head very small, snout obtusely pointed ; lower eyelid 

 scaly ; ear-opening round, smaller than the eye-opening, without 

 auricular lobules. Rostral almost as high as broad ; no supra- 

 nasal; frontonasal small, in contact with the rostral and the 

 frontal; latter nearly twice as broad as the supraocular region; 

 six supraoculars; seven supraciliaries; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal distinct, latter triangular; parietals narrow, in contact 

 behind the interparietal; two pair of nuchals and a pair of 

 temporals; six upper and five lower labials, the fifth upper 

 labial bordering the orbit. Body long, 3 1 smooth scales round 

 the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged ; praeanals slightly 

 enlarged. Tail one time and a half as long as head and body, 

 compressed distally, almost quadrangular. Limbs slightly over- 

 lapping when adpressed; digits compressed, 16 — 18 lamellae 

 under the fourth toe. 



