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Lower surface greenish- white. Length of head and body 43 mm.; 

 tail 55 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra? 1 ); Java? 2 ); Ternate; Halmahera ; New 

 Guinea (Pulu Faor, Jobi, Fak Fak!, Tangion Bair, Dorei, 

 Mansinam, Sorong, Erima on Astrolabe Bay) ; Valise Island. 

 Bismarck Archipelago ; Trobriand Island ; Solomon Islands ; 

 New Hebrides; Fidji Islands; Samoa; Tonga Islands; Sandwich 

 Islands; Tahiti. 



71. Lygosoma elegans Boulenger. 



Lygosoma elegans, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 8, pi. I fig. 3. 



Snout moderate; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear- 

 opening roundish, smaller than the eye-opening, no lobules. 

 Nostril in the nasal ; no supranasals ; frontonasal more broad than 

 long, in contact with the rostral and with the frontal; latter 

 as long as frontoparietal and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first 

 and last longest; eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal distinct; parietals in contact behind the latter; three 

 pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial below the eye. Body with 

 30 smooth scales round the middle, the two vertebral series 

 enlarged, twice as broad as long; the distance between the 

 tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and 

 one fourth in the distance between axilla and groin ; praeanals 

 enlarged. Tail one time and two fifths the length of head and 

 body. Limbs strong, the hind limb reaches the elbow; digits 

 slender, compressed, fourth toe with 23 smooth lamellae below. 



Light greenish-brown above, with blackish-brown spots, of 

 which the largest are sometimes disposed in two series along 

 the vertebral line, and continued on two thirds of the tail; 

 digits banded with pale and dark brown, palm and sole bright 

 yellow. Length of head and body 58 mm. ; tail 80 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Humboldt Bay!, Moroka in Bartho- 

 lomew Range 2300 feet!, Mt. Victoria in Owen Stanley Range!). 



1) Werner, Verb. Ges. Wien XLIV 1896, p. 13. 



2) op. cit. p. 13, Werner states that a specimen of L. noctua from Java is 

 preserved in the Vienna Museum. 



