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of head and body. Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed; 

 digits short, compressed, fourth toe with 16 20 smooth, divided 

 lamellae below. 



Brown above, uniform or spotted with black; sometimes the 

 black spots form transverse series on the anterior part of the 

 body; lips spotted with black. Lower parts yellowish. Length 

 of head and body 80 mm.; tail 112 mm. 



Habitat: Waigeu!; New Guinea (Sorong, Begowre river!, 

 Lake Sentani!, Merauke!, Fly river, Bara Bara, Mt. Victoria, 

 Moroka 2300 feet, Haveri, Inawi, Bogadjim). Ferguson 

 Island; Rossel Island; Islands of Torres Straits; Queensland; 

 Cape York. 



21. Lygosoma nigrolineatum Boulenger. 



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



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

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

 the nasal; no supranasals; frontonasal more broad than long, in 

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

 shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight 

 supraciliaries; frontoparietals and interparietal subequal; par- 

 ietals in contact; six pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial below 

 the centre of the eye. Body moderate; 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; 28 smooth scales 

 round the middle, the two vertebral series more than twice 

 as broad as long, fused here and there to a plate-like scale, 

 five or six times as broad as long, laterals smallest; praeanals 

 enlarged. Tail thick, a little longer than head and body. 

 Limbs short, just meeting when adpressed; digits short, com- 

 pressed, fourth toe with 18 smooth, mostly divided lamellae 

 below. 



Brown above, with a broad black dorso-lateral stripe from 

 the posterior corner of the eye to the middle of the tail and 

 separated from its fellow by four and two half scales; each 

 of the four scales between the stripes black-spotted, these 

 spots confluent into four interrupted lines; sides of head and 

 body greyish, speckled with black. Lower parts white; throat 

 and tail speckled with black. Length of head and body 57 

 mm.; tail 70 mm. 



