Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903[-1920] . ; parietals in contact; four or five pair of broad nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials below the eye. Body long; the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and a half or one time and three fifths in that between axilla and groin; 28 smooth scales round the middle,. the two vertébral séries largest ; praeanals en- larged. Tail thick, about one time and one fourth the length of head and body. Limbs short, widely separated when adpressed ; digits short
Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903[-1920] . ; parietals in contact; four or five pair of broad nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials below the eye. Body long; the distance between the tip of the snout and the fore limb is contained one time and a half or one time and three fifths in that between axilla and groin; 28 smooth scales round the middle,. the two vertébral séries largest ; praeanals en- larged. Tail thick, about one time and one fourth the length of head and body. Limbs short, widely separated when adpressed ; digits short, com- pressed; fourth toe with 18—20 lamellae below. Dark brown above; flanks lighter; sideswith small yellowish, brown-edged spots; lips withgreyish vertical bars continued on the chin. Lowerparts yellowish ; throat with greyish longitudinallines; tail with small brownish spots. Length oflargest spécimen, from Kloof Camp : head andbody 92 mm.; tail 109 mm., of which the lastthird was reproduced. Both expéditions, in 1909 and 1912, cap-tured a single spécimen of this new species Fi &• 5- Lygosoma ïongîcatidatum n. of tail reproduced. 27. Lygosoma mïdleri Schlegel. Boulenger, Cat. Liz. III 1887, p. Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 222. Bivak V 1360 m. 1909, 1 spec. Seems to be rather uncommon, as this spécimen is the only one, collected by thedifférent expéditions, though the species occurs ail over New Guinea. It is uniformly brownon the back; the dark brown latéral band is very distinct, also a greyish bar below the eye;throat greyish. The flanks below the dark band and the sides of the thick tail are spottedwith greyish-brown, the spots on the tail forming oblique vertical bars. L. mïdleri is with L. albofasciolatum (Gthr.), a form found in German New Guinea thelargest Lygosoma of the Archipelago, and also found in Ceram, Aru and Kei Islands. 28. Lygosoma longiceps Blgr. Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XVI 1895, p. Roo
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