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axilla ; digits dilated at the base, compressed distally, fourth 

 toe with 13 lamellae under the basal and 7 smooth lamellae 

 under the distal part. 



Pale brown or greenish above, scales sometimes edged with 

 brown ; head with four greyish spots : on the frontal, on the 

 supraocular regions and on the interparietal and part of the 

 parietals; digits banded with dark. Lower parts whitish; 

 subdigital lamellae dark brown. Length of head and body 

 65 mm.; tail 73 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Moso river ! , Bara Bara, Fife Bay). — 

 Trobriand Island; Ferguson Island; St Aignan Island; Rossel 

 Island. 



6^. Lygosoma longiceps Boulenger. 



Lygosoma longiceps^ BovXeugtr^ Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XVI 1895, p. 408. 



Head two times and a half as long as broad ; snout very long 

 and pointed, depressed; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; 

 ear-opening oval, smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. 

 Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more long than 

 broad, forming a broad straight suture with the rostral ; prae- 

 frontals in contact ; frontal small, as long as the frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, acutely pointed behind, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, first 

 large ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals almost as large as 

 the interparietal; parietals in contact; three pair of nuchals; 

 five upper labials before the subocular. Body with 24 smooth 

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

 distance between the tip of the snout and fore limb almost 

 equals that between axilla and groin ; praeanals enlarged. Tail 

 about as long as head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb 

 reaches the wrist; digits depressed at the base, compressed 

 distally, third and fourth equal, fourth toe with 19 smooth 

 lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, with three white, black-edged stripes, 

 the middle one beginning at the tip of the snout, sometimes 

 indistinct; the outer ones beginning at the eyes; tail golden. 

 Lower parts and upper lip white, with greenish-golden gloss. 

 Length of head and body 43 mm.; tail 55 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Sermowai river!, Begowre river!, 



