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subocular. Earopening oval , about as large as the trans- 

 parent disk, auricular lobes if present very small. 28 rows 

 of smooth scales round the middle of the body. Praeanal 

 scales scarcely enlarged. The adpressed hind limb reaches 

 a little beyond the shoulder. 35 — 39 lamellae under the 

 fourth toe. Tail one and a half the length of the body, 

 scales on the beginning of the tail larger than on the 

 posterior part of the body. 



14. Lygosoma Baudinii D. & B. 

 Several specimens. 



15. Lygosoma emigrans Lidth. (Plate 6, figs. 3, 3a and 36). 

 One specimen very much resembling the specimens from 



the islands of Soemba and Groot-Bastaard ^) but stouter 

 and with a broader and shorter frontal shield. Our spe- 

 cimen from New Guinea has 17 rows of scales under the 

 fourth toe, in this point agreeing with the Groot-Bastaard 

 specimen , whilst those from the island of Soemba have 

 20 rows of scales. Our new specimen has its upper parts 

 of a greyish brown colour, the sides of the head, of the 

 belly and of the tail with black vermiculations ; lower parts 

 whitish. 



16. Lygosoma Muelleri Schl. var. 



One specimen, differing from Schlegel's description and 

 figure in coloration , the upper part of head , body and 

 tail being of a uniform violet-brown colour (chocolade- 

 milchfarbig) with a very slight indication of a lighter dorsal 

 line, the lower parts being whitish; not a trace neither 

 of a dark longitudinal band from eye to groin , nor of 

 dark cross-bands on the tail. As to the arrangement of 

 the scales , our specimen agrees with Schlegel's typical 

 specimen , with the exception that it shows no suture be- 

 tween frontonasal and frontal shield , as both the prae- 

 frontals as well as frontal and frontonasal meet in one 

 point, A specimen from Audai (New Guinea) collected by 



1) Notes Leydeu Museum, Vol. XVI, p. 125, 1895. In addition to the des- 

 cription in that volume , I now add a figure of one of the typical specimens 

 from the island of Soemba 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVIII. 



