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Body moderate ; the distance between the tip of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained about one time and one third 

 in the distance between axilla and groin; 36 smooth scales 

 round the middle, subequal; praeanals not enlarged. Tail thick, 

 more than one time and a half as long as head and body. 

 Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed; digits short, com- 

 pressed, fourth toe with 21 obtusely keeled lamellae below. 



Brown above, with opaline gloss and about seven indistinct 

 blackish cross bands; lips with black bands, continued as 

 V-shaped lines on the throat ; sides of nape with black spots ; 

 flanks with indistinct light and dark dots and stripes. Lower 

 parts whitish. Length of head and body 117 mm.; tail 185 mm. 

 (After Boettger, not seen by me). 



Habitat: Halmahera ; Ternate ? (Boettger supposed, that the 

 specimen of L. rufescens, mentioned by Peters & Doria, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Geneva XIII 1878, p. 350 belongs to this species). 



1 08. Lygosoma albofasciolatum (Gthr.). 



Eumeces albofasciolatus, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) X 1872, p. 370. 

 Lygosoma albofasciolatum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 302, pi. XXIV. 



Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening oval, 

 smaller than the eye-opening, with a series of lobules anteriorly. 

 Nostril between the nasal and a small supranasal; frontonasal 

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

 and with the frontal ; praefrontals small ; frontal as long as 

 frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars; five supraoculars, last very small; eight 

 supraciliaries; frontoparietals longer than interparietal ; parietals 

 in contact behind the latter; a pair of nuchals and a pair of 

 temporals; sixth labial largest, below the eye, from which it 

 is separated by a series of small scales. Body long, the distance 

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

 one time and two thirds or one time and three fourths in the 

 distance between axilla and groin ; 34 38 smooth scales round 

 the middle, dorsals feebly enlarged ; praeanals not enlarged. 

 Tail thick. Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed ; digits 

 short, compressed, fourth toe with 21 smooth lamellae below. 



Dark brown above, with strong opaline gloss and yellowish- 

 brown cross bands. Lower parts yellowish-white. Length of 

 head and body 200 mm. 



