235 



supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal equal ; parietals 

 in contact; no nuchals; fourth and fifth upper labials below 

 the eye. Body with 30 32 smooth scales round the middle; 

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

 is contained one time and one third to one time and two thirds 

 in the distance between axilla and groin ; praeanals enlarged. 

 Limbs rather short, not meeting when adpressed; the hind 

 limb half as long as the distance between axilla and groin; 

 digits cylindrical, fourth toe with 13 15 smooth lamellae below. 



Reddish-brown above with dark reticulation; flanks and 

 sides of tail brown with yellowish spots; a black dorso-lateral 

 band, dotted with light, beginning at the eye and passing 

 above the ear; supraocular region darker; labials dark with 

 light centre; limbs dark, white-spotted. Lower parts white; 

 throat and tail speckled with dark. Length of head and body 

 42 mm.; tail (tip broken) 53 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Sudara Volcano 4450 feet, Masarang 

 Range!). 



74. Lygosoma inconspicuum F. Miiller. 



Lygosoma (Leiolepisma) inconspicuum^ F. Miiller, Verb. Ges. Basel X 1894, p. 837. 

 Lygosoma inconspicuum^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897, p. 213, 



pi. XI fig. 2. 



Snout pointed; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; 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 and with the frontal; latter a little 

 longer than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two anterior 

 supraoculars; four supraoculars, first and last longest; eight 

 supraciliaries; frontoparietal single, longer than the interparietal; 

 parietals in contact; three pair of nuchals; fifth upper labial 

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

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

 three fifths in that between axilla and groin ; 22 smooth scales 

 round the middle, dorsals largest, median series enlarged; 

 praeanals enlarged. Limbs rather short, not meeting when 

 adpressed ; the hind limb half as long as the distance between 

 axilla and groin; digits cylindrical; fourth toe with 1 8 smooth 

 lamellae below. 



Grey above; a dark brown lateral band, beginning at the 

 tip of the snout; on the occiput and nape some dark brown 



