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axilla and groin; praeanals enlarged. Tail nearly one time 

 and two thirds the length of head and body. Limbs strong, 

 the hind limb reaches the shoulder; digits long, compressed, 

 fourth toe with 27 29 smooth lamellae below. 



Pale brown above, with metallic gloss and irregularly distri- 

 buted dark brown spots ; flanks with dark brown vertical spots. 

 Lower parts whitish ; throat black, white-spotted, tail blackish 

 below. Young specimens with a dark lateral band, edged above 

 with white. Length of head and body 71 mm.; tail no mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the Amsterdam Museum. 



Habitat: Flores!; Adonara!; Gr. Bastaard!; Ombaai; 

 Wetar; Damma!; Samao!; Timor. 



7. Lygosoma lesueuri Dum. & Bibr. 



Lygosoma lesueurii^ Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. G6n. V 1839, p. 733. 

 Lygosoma lesueurii, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 225 (s. syn.). 



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

 as large as the eye-opening, with four or five lobules an- 

 teriorly. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more 

 broad than long, usually in contact with the rostral ; praefrontals 

 forming a suture; frontal as long as or a little longer than 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 three anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; eight supracili- 

 aries; frontoparietals as long as or shorter than the interpar- 

 ietal ; parietals in contact ; two to four pair of nuchals ; fifth 

 and sixth, or sixth and seventh upper labials largest and 

 below the eye. Body slender, the distance between the end 

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

 half to two times in that between axilla and groin ; 24 34 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged, 

 laterals smallest: praeanals enlarged. Tail long, more than 

 twice the length of head and body. Limbs strong, the hind 

 limb reaches the wrist or the elbow ; digits long, compressed, 

 fourth toe with 22 26 slightly keeled lamellae below. 



Brown, olive or black above, with a broad black vertebral 

 band, edged on both sides with white; a narrow white, black- 

 edged dorsolateral line; flanks dark, with longitudinal series 

 of white spots; a white streak, beginning above the axilla to 

 the groin. Lower parts white. Length of head and body 85 mm. ; 

 tail 190 mm. 



