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Habitat: New Guinea (Haas, Tanah Merah Bay!, Humboldt 

 Bay!, Mt. Victoria!, Madew on St. Joseph river 2 3000 feet!). 

 New Britain. 



15. Lygosoma shelfordi Boulenger. 



Lygosoma shelf or di, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1900, p. 182, pi. XIV, 

 fig. I. 



Snout short, obtusely pointed; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening 

 oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. Nostril 

 in the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal as long as broad, in 

 contact with the rostral; praefrontals meeting; frontal narrow, 

 as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars, first 

 longest; seven supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 subequal; parietals forming a suture; a single pair of nuchals; 

 fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 34 smooth scales 

 round the middle, dorsals a little larger than laterals and 

 ventrals; 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. Tail as long as head 

 and body. Limbs strong, slightly overlapping when adpressed ; 

 digits moderate, compressed, fourth toe with 29 smooth lamellae 

 below. 



Olive-brown above, irregularly spotted with black; a black 

 lateral stripe from the end of the snout to the groin, passing 

 through the eye and above the tympanum, broken up into 

 spots on the side of the body. Lower parts olive-grey. Length 

 of head and body 67 mm.; tail 68 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Mt. Penrisen 3000 feet!). 



1 6. Lygosoma emigrans Lidth. 



Lygosoma emigrans, v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XVI 1895, p. 125; 



id. XVIII 1896/97, P. 253 pi. VI fig. 3. 

 Lygosoma everetti, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 504. 



Snout obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening round, smaller 

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

 supranasals; frontonasal much more broad than long, forming a 

 suture with the rostral and with the frontal; latter as long as 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together or a little shorter, 



