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Show 216 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [Feb. 2, moderately long, pointed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the centre of the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with the rostral and with the frontal; praefrontals small; frontal a little longer than the frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first and fourth longest; seven to nine supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; interparietal distinct; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; two or three pairs of nuchals; fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth upper labials largest and below the eye. Ear concealed under the scales, but indicated by a depression. 22 smooth scales round the middle of the body, those of the two vertebral series much broader than the others. A pair of enlarged praeanals. The adpressed limbs fail to meet, meet, or slightly overlap. Digits moderately long, strongly compressed distally ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 18 to 25 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half as long as head and body. Velio wish, with four black stripes, the median pair extending to the supraoculars, the lateral to the eyes ; or dark brown with a golden or silvery vertebral stripe commencing from the snout and a more or less distinct light dorso-lateral stripe; or pale bronzy, with a lighter black-edged stripe along each side of the back ; digits with brown cross-bars; whitish beneath, with or without brown longitudinal lines running between the series of scales ; throat sometimes dark brown. mm. Total length 92 Head 10 Width of head 6 Body 39 Fore limb 12 Hind limb 16 Tail (reproduced) 43 Ten specimens: wood near Dumoga besar; Kema; Buol; Bungi; Sosso ; Macassar. Siao (Sangir Is.), Manado (Meyer). I suspect the specimen from Gorontalo, referred by Peters to L. quadrivittatum, wdll prove to belong to this species. L. quadrivittatum (wdth 18 rows of scales) is now represented in the British Museum by two specimens from Sandakan, North Borneo, presented by Mr. Douglas Cator and Governor C. V. Creagh. 35. TROPIDOPHORUS GRAYI, Gthr. Two specimens : Kingdom of Luhu, C. Celebes. Luhu (Weber). DlBAMIDcE. 36. DlBAMUS NOViE-GUINEiE, D. & B. Six specimens : Tomohon and Burukan. Luhu (Weber). |