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in contact with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; 

 seven or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 equal, or latter shortest; parietals in contact; a pair of tem- 

 porals and a pair of nuchals with a small median scale between; 

 fourth to sixth upper labials below the eye. Body very slender, 

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

 is contained about one time and three fourths in that between 

 axilla and groin; 26 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals 

 largest; praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, not quite one time and 

 a half the length of head and body. Limbs short, the hind 

 limb half as long as the distance between axilla and groin; 

 fourth toe with 18 20 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown above with black spots; flanks dark brown, white- 

 spotted; a dark brown band, edged above with white, begin- 

 ning at the nostril, passing through the eye and above the ear; 

 flanks brown-spotted; lips brown and white-spotted. Lower 

 parts white. Length of head and body 66 mm.; tail 77 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum; type- 

 specimen of Lygosoma everetti examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Pulu Sukur N. off Flores!; Sumba!; Samao!; 

 Gr. Bastaard!; New Guinea (Astrolabe Bay!). 



17. Lygosoma tenuiculum Mocquard. 



Lygosoma tenuiculum, Mocquard, Le Natural. XII 1890, p. 144; Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. (3) II 1890, p. 133, pi. VIII, fig. 2. 



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

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

 no supranasals; frontonasal much more broad than long, in contact 

 with the rostral and with the frontal; latter a little shorter 

 than the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight 

 supraciliaries; frontoparietals a little longer than the interpar- 

 ietal; parietals in contact; no nuchals; fifth upper labial below 

 the eye. Body long, the distance between the tip of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained one time and a half in that 

 between axilla and groin; 26 smooth scales, laterals smallest. 

 Tail thick, longer than head and body. Limbs strong, the 

 hind limb reaches the wrist; digits long, compressed, fourth 

 toe with 22 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown above, anteriorly spotted with dark brown; a dark 



