BY C. W. DE VIS. 499 



interparietal, which is bounded caudad by a pair of nuchals and a 

 pair of temporals. Supraoculars four ; supraciliaries seven. Ear 

 orifice subcircular or oval, small, as large as or a little larger than 

 the palpebral disk ; one to three small lobules on its anterior edge 

 rarely wanting. Five upper labials anterior to large subocular. 

 Scales round the middle of the body in 33 to 36 rows ; dorsals 

 rather larger than abdominals, smooth, with or without thi-ee or 

 more obscure pigment lines. Preanal scales not or varyingly 

 enlarged. The protracted hind limb reaches the elbow or a little 

 beyond. Digits moderate in length, basal phalanges depressed, 

 distal compressed; subdigital plates 75 to 87 under the fourth toe. 

 Olive-brown, with a strong metallic iridescence, speckled on back 

 and sides with paler scales, or nearly uniform ; head above uniform 

 brown ; beneath green to greenish-yellow ; mental and rostral 

 plates pale buff". 



Total length 283mm. Width of head 12.5mm. 



Length of head 21-5 Fore limb 29 



Length of head and neck 34 Hind limb 40 



Length of flank 42 Fourth toe 13 



Tail 201mm. 



Many examples. 



HOMOLEPIDA ENGLISHI, U.S. 



Habit of body very stout, tapering rapidly to a small head, and 

 obtusely pointed muzzle. Frontonasal broader than long, forming 

 a short suture with the rostral, and a very short one with the 

 frontal, the prefontals being nearly in contact. Frontal large, 

 longer than the frontoparietal and interparietal together ; fronto- 

 parietals barely in contact ; interparietal longer than fronto- 

 parietals ; hinder portion of parietals divided off as nuchal scales 

 forming a suture behind the interparietal. No nuchal plates. Fifth 

 and sixth upper labials beneath the eye ; an interrupted series of 

 suboculars. Ear orifice moderate, rounded, shorter than theeye- 

 slit. Scales in 32 rows round the middle of the body, smooth, the 

 central dorsals very wide, short. A pair of enlarged preanals. 

 Tail thick. Fourth toe the longest, subdigital plates 17. Above 

 uniform dark olive brown. Sides with a broad black stripe from 



