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interparietal, which is narrow; parietals in contact; four or 

 five pair of broad nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials below 

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

 and the fore limb is contained one time and a half or one 

 time and three fifths in that between axilla and groin; 28 

 smooth scales round the middle, the two vertebral series largest ; 

 praeanals enlarged. Tail thick, about one time and one fourth 

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

 when adpressed; digits short, compressed; fourth toe with 

 1 8 20 lamellae below. 



Dark brown above ; flanks lighter ; sides with small yellowish, 

 brown-edged spots; lips with greyish vertical bars continued 

 on the chin. Lower parts yellowish ; throat with greyish longi- 

 tudinal lines; tail with small brownish spots. Length of head 

 and body 92 mm.; tail 109 mm. 



Habitat: S. New Guinea (Lorentz river!). 



59. Lygosoma brevipes Boettger. 



Lygosoma brevipes\\ Boettger, Zool. Anz. XVIII 1895, p. 121; Abh. Senckenb. 



Ges. XXV 1900, p. 346, Taf. XIV fig. 3. 

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



1912, p. 90. 



Head small, flat; snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; 

 ear-opening roundish, large, a little smaller than the eye- 

 opening, no lobules. Nostril in a large nasal; no supranasals; 

 rostral high, reaching between the nasals; frontonasal more broad 

 than long, narrowly in contact with the rostral and with the 

 frontal ; praefrontals small and separated ; frontal broader than 

 the supraocular region, shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the first supraciliary and 

 the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars; six to eight 

 supraciliaries, first largest; frontoparietals slightly larger than 

 the interparietal ; parietals in contact ; four to six pair of nuchals; 

 fifth upper labial large, below the eye, from which the labials 

 are separated by a series of 6 scales, the second and fifth of 

 these largest and wedged in between the labials. Body long, 

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

 is contained one time and a half to two times in that between 



i) Placed by Boettger in the Section Homolepida, and by Boulenger in the 

 Section Hinulia. 



