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axilla and groin ; 28 30 smooth scales round the middle, the 

 two vertebral series broadest, lateral scales smallest; praeanals 

 strongly enlarged. Tail thick, about one time and a third to 

 one time and a half the length of head and body. Limbs 

 short, not meeting when adpressed ; digits compressed, fourth 

 toe much longer than third, with 14 1 6 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown above, the scales black-edged ; flanks dark-spotted ; 

 lips white- and black-banded. Lower parts yellowish, throat 

 and tail speckled with brownish-grey. Young specimens with 

 the snout and frontal region yellowish or whitish. Length of 

 head and body 58 mm.; tail 91 mm. (reproduced). 



Type-specimens examined from the Senckenberg Museum. 



Habitat: Halmahera!; Ternate!. 



60. Lygosoma mulleri (Schleg.). 



Scincus mulleri, Schlegel, Abbildungen, 1837, p. 13, pi. III. 

 Lygosoma muelleri^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 338 (s. syn.). 

 Homolepida English^ de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2) V 1890, p. 499. 



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

 scaly; ear-opening oval, slightly smaller than the eye-opening, 

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

 rostral narrow, reaching between the nasals; frontonasal as 

 long as broad or slightly more broad than long, forming a narrow 

 suture with the rostral and one with the frontal ; latter almost 

 as long as frontoparietals and interparietal together, almost 

 as broad as long, broader than the supraocular region, in 

 contact with the two anterior supraoculars and the first supra- 

 ciliary ; five supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct; parietals in contact behind 

 the latter; one or two pair of 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 nearly twice 

 in the distance between axilla and groin; 34 smooth scales 

 round the middle, the two vertebral series enlarged; praeanals 

 slightly enlarged. Tail thick, one time and a half to one time 

 and three fourths the length of head and body. Limbs rather 

 short, not meeting when adpressed ; digits short, compressed, 

 fourth toe with 18 20 smooth lamellae below, which are 

 sometimes divided. 



Brown above with small dark or light spots; a dark lateral 

 band, edged with yellow, from the eye to the hind limb; a 



