1 9 6 



Brown above, uniform or with small blackish spots or irreg- 

 ular dark cross bands; a dorso-lateral series of light, black- 

 edged ocelli may be present; flanks speckled with dark brown 

 or with a broad black band from the eye to the hind limb, 

 the upper border of the band wavy; a dark streak through 

 the eye; sometimes three or five black spots on each side of 

 the anterior part of the body, the first above the ear; lips 

 spotted with brown; limbs dark-spotted, soles greyish-brown, 

 tail with a series of pale spots on each side, bordered with 

 black. Lower parts yellowish; throat sometimes with brown 

 spots or lines. Length of head and body ii6mm.; tail 183 mm. 



Habitat: Aru Islands; Salawatti!; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Djamna, Manokwari!, Sermowai river!, Koime river!, Kaiserin- 

 Augusta river!, Humboldt Bay, Lorentz river!, Mimika river, 

 Stekwa river, Fly river, Bara Bara, Vikaiku, St. Joseph river, 

 Mt. Victoria, Haveri, Moroka 2300 feet, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, 

 Berlinhafen, Erima, Oertzen Mts./Astrolabe Bay!; Valise Island). 

 Ferguson Island; Trobriand Island; Bismarck Archipelago. 



The egg is cylindrical, whitish and measures 19 20 mm. by 

 9.5 ii mm. 



37. Lygosoma variegatum Peters. 



Lygosoma (Hinulia^ variegatum^ Peters, Mori. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 20. 

 Lygosoma variegatum, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 246 (s. syn.). 

 Lygosoma kinabaluensis />, Bartlett, Crocod. Liz. Borneo Sarawak Mus. 1895, p. 94. 

 Sphenomorphus variegatus, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 90. 



Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; supraocular region 

 swollen; ear-opening large, oval, smaller than the eye-opening, 

 no lobules. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasals; two super- 

 posed anterior loreals; frontonasal twice as broad as long or 

 broader, broadly in contact with the rostral; praefrontals 

 forming a suture; frontal as long as frontoparietals and par- 

 ietals together or shorter, in contact with the three anterior 

 supraoculars; six to eight supraoculars, first twice as long as 

 second; twelve or thirteen supraciliaries; frontoparietals a little 

 longer than the interparietal; parietals in contact; no nuchals; 

 fifth or sixth upper labial below the eye. Body with 38 or 

 40 smooth scales round the middle, dorsals largest, laterals 

 smallest; the distance between the tip of the snout and the 

 fore limb is contained one time to one and a third time in 



