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Brown above, flanks with a dark, yellow-edged band, some- 

 times indistinct in the adult; lips whitish, black-spotted. Lower 

 parts whitish, sometimes brown-dotted. Length of head and 

 body 33 mm.; tail 48 mm. 



Habitat: Halmahera; Ternate; Batjan ; Obi; Ceram ; 

 Ambon; Kei Islands; New Guinea (Pulu Faor, Rubi, Lorentz 

 river!, Stekwa river, Bara Bara, Haveri, Fife Bay, Katow). 

 Islands of Torres Straits. 



86. Lygosoma curtum Boulenger. 



Lygosoma curtum, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XIX 1897, p. 9. . 



Snout very short, obtuse; lower eyelid with a transparent 

 disk ; ear-opening roundish, a little smaller than the palpebral 

 disk, with a single lobule anteriorly. No supranasals; fronto- 

 nasal nearly twice as broad as long, broadly in contact with 

 the rostral, narrowly with the frontal; latter as long as or a 

 little shorter than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; 

 interparietal distinct; parietals in contact behind the latter; a 

 pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals ; three upper labials 

 before the subocular. Body short and stout; the distance 

 between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained 

 one time and two fifths to one time and a half in the distance 

 between axilla and groin ; 26 scales round the middle, all smooth 

 or dorsals with three feeble grooves; praeanals not enlarged. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body. Limbs feeble, the 

 hind limb reaches the wrist; digits short, fingers four, toes 

 five; fourth toe with 23 25 smooth lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, uniform or with small lighter spots; 

 lips brown-spotted. Lower parts yellowish or greenish-white. 

 Length of head and body 37 mm.; tail 45 mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mt. Victoria in Owen Stanley 

 Range!). 



Section Emoa Gray (fig. 88). 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk; tympanum distinct; 

 supranasals present. Rostral forming a suture with the fronto- 

 nasal; frontal not broader than the supraocular region. Prae- 



