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more or less circular and very slightly depressed area paved with three flat 

 polygonal scales; ridges not indicated on the snout; head-scales all flat; about 

 four scales in a row between the nostrils ; supraocular semicircles (as in loysiana) 

 composed of large scales broadly in contact their entire distance along the 

 median hne; occipital large, about twice as large as ear opening, separated from 

 the supraocular semicircles by two rows of pavement-Uke polygonal scales; 

 supraocular disc consisting of an anterior large scale, two smaller scales and a 

 fourth very small scale, all the four so fitting one another as to compose an oval 

 pattern (in other specimens the oval disc may be composed of only two scales) ; 

 disc separated from semicircle by one or two rows of scales; canthus rostralis 

 consisting of about four shghtly elongate scales, canthus prolonged backward 

 to a point above centre of eye. Loreal rows, two or three; seven smooth supra- 

 labials, suture between sixth and seventh under the centre of the eye; temporals 

 mostly flat but smallest and slightly tubercular in the centre of the temporal 

 area. Supratemporal line indicated by a row of flat juxtaposed scales; no en- 

 larged dorsals, back and sides covered with minute bro^\Ti or oblong flat or 

 slightly tubercular scales, homogenous in character; ventrals larger, shghtly 

 imbricate and perfectly smooth; scales of the anterior aspect of fore and hind 

 hmb enlarged, smooth and imbricating; limbs short, digits shorter than usual 

 in the genus; the hind limb being adpressed forward reaches about the ear 

 opening; digital expansions moderately developed, about twenty lamellae 

 under phalanges II and III of fourth toe; tail rather long and slender, much 

 more than twice as long as head and body, slightly compressed at the base, 

 covered with keeled and imbricating scales with verticils at intervals of about 

 six or seven scales ; two well-developed postanal plates. 



Colour (alcoholic specimen) : — Body grayish of rather a hght tone, mottled 

 and spotted with darker; dewlap pinkish shading to orange at the margin; a 

 dark postoccipital spot and a dark band between the eyes. 



Dimensions: — Total length 121 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 36 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 85 nun. 



Tip of snout to ear 12.5 mm. 



Width of head 8 mm. 



Fore leg 14 mm. 



Hind leg 25 mm. 



Generally speaking the colouration of this species is composed of longi- 

 tudinal light and dark stripes along the body and one light lateral band at least 



