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Tail thick, nearly twice as long as head and body. Limbs 

 very short, the hind limb as long as the distance between 

 the centre of the eye and the fore limb; digits short, fourth 

 toe longer than third, with 15 18 smooth lamellae below. 



Light brown or golden above, with a black streak or two 

 series of black dots along the vertebral line; flanks dark brown 

 or blackish, with or without numerous whitish spots. Lower 

 parts yellowish or light brown, uniform or black-spotted. Length 

 of head and body 46 mm.; tail 80 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Fly river!, Aroma!, Inawi, Kelesi). 

 Islands of Torres Straits; Queensland. 



46. Lygosoma unilineatum n. sp. 



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



than the eye-opening, 

 with five obtusely 

 pointed lobules ante- 

 riorly. Nostril in the 

 nasal; no supranasal; 

 frontonasal about twice 

 as broad as long, 

 broadly in contact 

 with the rostral, nar- 

 rowly with the frontal; 

 latter as long as fronto- 

 parietals and interpar- 

 ietal together, in con- 

 tact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars, first 

 and second larger than 

 the rest; seven or eight 

 supraciliaries; fronto- 

 parietals as long as 

 the interparietal; par- 

 ietals in contact; a 

 pair of nuchals and a 

 pair of temporals; fifth 



Fig. 80. Lygosoma unilineatum n. sp. upper labial below the 



eye. Body long; the 

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



