2 5 6 



lateral band beginning at the eye; flanks black with a light 

 line from the upper lip through the ear to the groin ; a short 

 light oblique line on the upper arm. Lower parts greenish 

 or whitish. Length of head and body 48 mm.; tail 82 mm. 



Habitat: Waigeu!; New Guinea (Djamna, Manokwari, 

 Sorong, lake Sentani!, Manikion river!, Liki!, Jobi, Mios Kairu!, 

 Mios Korwar!, Sermowai river!, Jaona!, Koime river!, Begowre 

 river!, Kaiserin-Augusta or Sepik river 1570 M.!, Friedrich- 

 Wilhelmshafen, Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Bogadjim, Stephans- 

 ort, Oertzen Mts., Bara Bara, Moroka 2300 feet, Inawi, Albert 

 Edward Range 6000 feet). Ferguson Island ; Trobriand 

 Island ; Bismarck Archipelago ; Admiralty Islands ; Caroline 

 Islands. 



96. Lygosoma mehelyi Werner. 



Lygosoma mivarti, part., Mehely, Termes. Fuzetek XXI 1898, p. 169. 

 Lygosoma mehelyi, Werner, Zool. Anz. XXII 1899, p. 371. 



Differs from the preceding one on the following points : 

 Frontoparietal and interparietal fused, more long than broad ; 

 no auricular lobules; head higher. 



Brown above, with small black spots in a dark streak on 

 each side of the vertebral line; flanks with a brownish-black 

 band, confluent with the dark brown colour from the side of 

 the head, this band edged above with a white line or con- 

 fluent white spots, below with a white streak, beginning at 

 the mouth or the ear. Fingers and claws white. (Not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Stephansort, Bogadjim, Oertzen 

 Mounts, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, Sepik river 1570 M.). 



97. Lygosoma callistictum (Peters & Doria). 



Euprepes (Tiliqua) callistictus, Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva XIII 



1878, p. 355- 

 Lygosoma callistictum, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 295. 



Lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear-opening oval, 

 vertical, with a few lobules anteriorly. Supranasals present, 

 small ; frontonasal more broad than long, in contact with the 

 rostral and with the frontal ; latter rhomboidal, pointed behind; a 

 little shorter than the frontoparietal and interparietal together; 

 four supraoculars ; frontoparietal single, fused with the inter- 

 parietal ; parietals in contact ; fifth or sixth upper labial below 

 the eye. Body with 28 scales round the middle, dorsals and 



