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body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the axilla; digits 

 long, compressed; fourth toe with 21 unicarinate, divided 

 lamellae below. 



Brown above, with a dark brown network, and yellowish 

 spots; a round black spot above the shoulder. Lower parts 

 yellowish. Length of head and body 48 mm.; tail 74 mm. 

 (After Boulenger, not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Moroka in Bartholomew Range 2300 

 feet). 



Only one specimen known. 



5. Lygosoma mimikanum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma mimikanum, Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX 1914, p. 257, 

 pi. XXIX fig. 2. 



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

 oval, smaller than the eye-opening, the tympanum deeply sunk, 

 no lobules. Nostril in the nasal; a very small triangular supra- 

 nasal between the frontonasal, the nasal and the postnasal; 

 frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with the rostral and 

 with the single praefrontal (the praefrontals being fused in 

 the only known specimen); frontal narrowed behind, as long 

 as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with 

 the first supraciliary and the three anterior supraoculars; seven 

 supraoculars, first longest, last very small; twelve supraciliaries, 

 first largest; frontoparietals a little larger than the interparietal; 

 parietals in contact; three pair of nuchals; fifth to seventh 

 upper labials below the eye. Body stout; the distance between 

 the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time 

 and one third in that between axilla and groin; 40 smooth 

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

 anals enlarged. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the elbow; 

 digits short, compressed, fourth toe with 15 or 16 lamellae 

 below, most of them obtusely keeled. 



Reddish-brown above, spotted with brown, the spots forming 

 numerous irregular transverse series; a dark brown spot behind 

 and below the eye; lips light, with dark brown spots. Lower 

 parts white. Length of head and body 90 mm.; tail (reprod.) 

 105 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mimika river!). 



