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flanks blackish with whitish wavy transverse lines. Lower 

 parts yellowish; chin and throat with black spots or longitu- 

 dinal lines. Length of head and body 35 mm. (Not seen by me). 

 Habitat: Batjan; Halmahera. 



12. Lygosoma rufum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma rufum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 239. 



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

 smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal ; no 

 supranasals ; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with 

 the rostral; praefrontals meeting with the inner angles; frontal 

 almost as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 

 contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 

 followed by a very small one; nine or ten supraciliaries ; fron- 

 toparietals longer than interparietal; parietals in contact; no 

 nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 32 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged, 

 laterals smallest; the distance between the tip of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained one time and two fifths in that 

 between axilla and groin; praeanals enlarged. Limbs strong, 

 slightly overlapping when adpressed; digits short, compressed, 

 fourth toe with 20 smooth, divided lamellae below. 



Reddish-brown above, variegated with darker and lighter 

 tints. Lower parts brownish-white. Length of head and body 

 60 mm. ; tail (reproduced) 48 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Aru Islands!. 



13. Lygosoma biittikoferi Lidth. 



Lygosoma buttikoferi, v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XXV 1905, p. 193. 



Snout short; lower eyelid scaly ; ear-opening roundish, smaller 

 than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril in the nasal ; no 

 supranasals ; frontonasal much more broad than long, forming a 

 narrow suture with the rostral ; praefrontals in contact ; frontal 

 shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, narrowly 

 pointed behind, in contact with two supraoculars; four supra- 

 oculars; nine supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 subequal; parietals in contact; no nuchals, parietals bordered 

 by four scales, the anterior of which is very large. Body long, 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb 



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