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25. Lygosoma celebekse, F. Miill, (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Lygosoma (Otosaurns) celehense, F. Miill. Verb. nat. Ges. Basel, 

 X. 1894, p. S36, fig. 



Section Otosanrus. Habit lacertiform ; the distance between 

 the end of the snout and the fore liinb contained once and one- 

 fifth to once and a half in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a 

 single nasal ; two pairs of superposed loreals ; a large supranasal, 

 forming a suture with its fellow, or separated from it by the fronto- 

 nasal, which is small, situated between the internasals and the 

 prsefrontals, and in contact with the frontal ; latter as long as or a 

 little shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 

 contact \\lt\\ the three anterior supraoculars ; six supraoculars, 

 first much longer than second ; 11 to 13 supraciliaries ; fronte- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct, subequal ; parietals forming a 

 short suture behind the interparietal ; no uuchals; fourth and fifth 

 upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening large, oval, smaller than 

 the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 40 to 44 smooth scales 

 round the middle of the body, laterals smallest. A pair of enlarged 

 prseanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow of the 

 adpressed fore limb. Digits elongate, compressed ; subdigital 

 lamellae unicarinate, 17 to 20 under the fourth toe. Tail once and 

 one-third to once and three-fifths the length of head and body. 

 Pale brown or reddish above, spotted or tessellated with dark 

 brown, or dark brown with yellowish-brown spots or irregular 

 cross-bars ; an interrupted blackish dorso-lateral streak may be 

 present ; lower parts whitish, uniform or throat speckled with 

 black ; throat sometimes bluish. 



mm. 



Total length 144 



Head 13 



Width of head 8 



Body 43 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 25 



Tail 88 



Seven specimens : Mahawu Volcano, near Tomohon ; Masarang 

 Yolcano ; Upper Bone Valley. 



26. Lygosoma smaeagdinum. Less. 



L. acutirostre, Oudemans, in Semon, Zool. Forsch. p. 141, fig. 

 (1894). 



10 specimens : Buol, Mapane (Tomini G-ulf), Pare-Pare, Ma- 

 cassar. 



Minahassa, Macassar {Meyer), Macassar {Beccari, Bruijn). 



The specimens vary in scaling and in coloration. Some are oi 

 the usual emerald-green colour, without or with small black spots ; 

 others olive or pale brown, with small black spots or with two 

 dorsal series of very large black blotches. Eight have six upper 



