215 

 with dark brown or greyish, with a yellowish centre; tail dark 



Fig. 83. Lygosoma nigriventre n. sp. 



brown below, the scales dark with lighter borders. Length 

 of head and body 90 mm.; tail (tip broken) 1 1 1 mm. 

 Habitat: S. New Guinea (Hellwig Mts. 1700 M.!). 



52. Lygosoma loriae Boulenger. 



Lygosoma loriae^ Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XVIII 1897, p. 698, 

 pi. VII fig. i. 



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

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

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

 the rostral; praefrontals just meeting or narrowly separated; 

 frontal broader than the supraocular region, as long as fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together or a little shorter, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars; eight 



