Brown above, with dark brown cross bands or network, 

 the spots largest on the sides of the neck. Lower parts yellow- 

 ish or brownish; throat sometimes with brown longitudinal 

 lines. Length. of head and body 90 mm.; tail 118 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Manado!); Aru Islands!; Goram; Sala- 

 watti; New Guinea! (Mafoor, Jobi, Dorei, Mansinam, Andai, 

 Hatam, Mt. Arfak, Sorong, Passim, Rubi, Humboldt Bay, 

 Ramoi, Kolokadi, Kapaor, Mt. Epa, Mimika river, Stekwa river, 

 Fly river); Schouten Islands (Mysore). 



32. Lygosoma nigrilabre Giinther. 



Hinulia nigrolabris, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 166, pi. XVII fig. A. 

 Lygosoma nigrilabre^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 245. 

 Lygosoma amabile, F. Miiller, Verb. Ges. Basel X 1895, p. 837. 



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

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

 nasal; no supranasals; two superposed anterior loreals; fronto- 

 nasal twice as broad as long, in contact with the rostral; 

 praefrontals forming a suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the three anterior 

 supraoculars; six supraoculars, first more than twice as long 

 as second; eleven supraciliaries; frontoparietals longer than 

 interparietal; parietals in contact; no nuchals; fourth and fifth 

 or fifth and sixth labials below the eye. Body with 40 50 

 scales round the middle, laterals smallest, dorsals largest, keeled; 

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

 is contained one time and one fifth in that between axilla and 

 groin; praeanals enlarged. Tail one time and a half the length 

 of head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the 

 shoulder, digits slender, compressed, fourth toe with 20 27 

 keeled lamellae below. 



Light brown above, with irregular dark brown spots ; a dark 

 brown dorso-lateral band spotted with yellowish, beginning at 

 the nostril; flanks spotted with brown; upper lip whitish, edged 

 with blackish-brown; limbs dark-spotted. Lower parts yellowish; 

 throat sometimes black-spotted. Length of head and body 

 95 mm.; tail 140 mm. 



Nom. indig. Ulowa (Toradja name). 



Habitat: Celebes (Manado, Posso!, Klabat Volcano, Sudara 

 Volcano, Tomohon, Matinang Mts. 2600 feet, Luhu 1000 1600 

 feet, Masarang Range!, Sadaonta, Tuwa, Mapane, Bua Praeng). 



