Dark brown above; flanks mottled with light; a greyish 

 oblique bar below the eye; last two upper labials whitish. 

 Lower parts yellowish- white. Length of head and body 90 mm.; 

 tail 155 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mimika river!). 



54. Lygosoma pratti Boulenger. 



Lygosoma pratti^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc London 1903, p. 128, pi. XIII fig. I. 



Head small, depressed, with a pointed snout; lower eyelid 

 scaly; ear-opening oval, about as large as the eye-opening, 

 without auricular lobules. Nostril in the nasal; no supranasal; 

 rostral narrow, reaching between the nasals; frontonasal more 

 broad than long, forming a narrow suture with the rostral and also 

 with the frontal; latter much broader than the supraocular 

 region, as large as frontoparietals and interparietal together, 

 in contact with the first supraocular, part of the second and 

 the first supraciliary; four supraoculars ; seven supraciliaries; 

 frontoparietals and interparietal distinct; parietals in contact 

 behind the latter; no nuchals; fourth and fifth upper labials 

 below the eye. Body long; the distance between the tip of 

 the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and three 

 fourths in the distance between axilla and groin; 36 smooth 

 scales round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged; 

 praeanals slightly enlarged. Tail very thick, one time and one 

 fourth the length of head and body. Limbs short, widely 

 separated when adpressed ; digits short, compressed, with 

 keeled lamellae below, mostly divided, 13 or 14 under the 

 fourth toe. 



Light brown above, vermiculated with dark brown; head 

 lead-coloured, two oblique yellowish streaks from below the 

 eye to the throat. Lower parts whitish ; throat with some brown 

 oblique lines. Length of head and body 87 mm.; tail 100 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Dinawa in Owen Stanley Range 

 4000 feet, Begowre river!). 



55- Lygosoma neuhaussi Vogt. 



Lygosoma neuhaussi, Vogt, Sitz. her. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin NO. 9 1911^.422. 



Head small, snout obtusely pointed ; lower eyelid scaly ; ear 

 distinct, oval, no lobules. Rostral more broad than high ; nostril 



