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Celebes (Gorontalo, Manado!, Posso!, Kema, Paloppo, Kandari, 

 Luhu!); Togian Islands; Sanghir Islands; Karakelang Islands!; 

 Salibabu Islands!; Ternate; Halmahera; Morotai!; Nusa Laut!, 

 Buru; Ambon!, Ceram!; Goram; Kei Islands!; Aru Islands; 

 Timor Laut; Misol; Salawatti; Waigeu!; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Mafoor, Pulu Faor, Solo Bay!, Dorei, Rubi, Andai, Dorei Hum, 

 Kolokadi, Mt. Arfak, Sorong, Mansinam, Manokwari, Djamna, 

 lake Sentani ! , Nacheibe ! , Mawes ! , lake Jamur ! , Manikion river !, 

 Wendesi!, Jaona!, Kaiserin- Augusta river!, Tanah Merah Bay !, 

 Humboldt Bay!, Mimika river, Stekwa river, Utakwa river 

 2500 3000 feet, Lorentz river!, Tami river, Sattelberg, 

 Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Berlin- 

 hafen, Seleo Island, Five Bay); Schouten Islands (Mysore); 

 Mios Kairu!; Pegun!; Valise Island. Ferguson Island; 

 Trobriand Island; Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; 

 Admiralty Islands; Santa Cruz; Banks; New Hebrides; 

 Polynesia. 



95. Lygosoma mivarti Boulenger. 



Lygosoma mivarti, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 292, pi. XXIII fig. I. 

 Emoia inivarti^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 94. 



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

 opening oval, as large as the palpebral disk, with two or three 

 short lobules anteriorly. Nostril between three small shields, 

 a nasal, a postnasal and a supranasal ; frontonasal more broad 

 than long, forming a broad suture with the rostral and with the 

 frontal; latter almost as long as the frontoparietal, in contact 

 with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, fused with the interparietal, 

 as long as^ broad ; parietals in contact behind the latter shield ; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals ; four or five labials 

 before the large subocular. Body with 32 44 smooth scales 

 round the middle, dorsals largest, laterals smallest ; the distance 

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

 one time to one time and one fourth in the distance between axilla 

 and groin ; praeanals not or feebly enlarged. Tail nearly twice 

 the length of head and body. Limbs strong, the hind limb 

 reaches the axilla or beyond ; digits moderate, roundish ; fourth 

 toe with 40 45 smooth lamellae below. 



Brown or olive above, with black spots, usually forming a 

 dark band on each side of the vertebral region ; a light dorso- 



