from British New Guinea. 29 
10. Lygosoma elegantulum, Peters & Doria. 
Tt, jobiense, Meyer. 
12. smaragdinum, Less. 
13. Semont, Oudemans. 
14. Lygosoma miotis, sp. n. 
Section Liolepisma. Habit lacertiform ; the distance be- 
tween the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained 
once and three fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. 
Snout moderate, pointed. Lower eyelid with an undivided 
transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; 
frontonasal a little broader than long, forming a broad suture 
with the rostral and a narrow one with the frontal; frontal 
as long as frontoparietal and interparietal together, in con- 
tact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 
first and second subequal in length; frontoparietals fused ; 
interparietal nearly as long as frontoparietal ; parietals forming 
a suture behind the interparietal; three pairs of nuchals; 
fifth upper labial entering the orbit. Har-opening small, not 
larger than the palpebral disk, without projecting lobules. 
24 smooth scales round the middle of the body, two median 
dorsal rows largest. A pair of enlarged preeanals. The ad- 
pressed limbs overlap. Digits cylindrical at the base, com- 
pressed at the end; subdigital lamellee smooth, 20 under the 
fourth toe. ‘Tail once and two fifths length of head and body. 
Golden brown above, with small blackish spots and a light 
dorso-lateral streak, bordered beneath by confluent black 
spots; a whitish, black-edged spot on the occiput; lips 
brown-spotted ; tail with longitudinal series of brown spots 
beneath ; belly whitish. 
millim. 
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Ug Rotato etree ae ePIC EER ROE CLG Peciens clic 10 
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Hones imp eerie tein 4 Saale tae 12 
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alec ences ohe oe eskai! et ere ee 65 
A single specimen. 
In form and coloration this lizard strikingly resembles 
ZL. noctua, from which it differs, however, in the broader 
frontonasal, the single interparietal, and the much smaller 
ear-opening. 
