110 REPTILES. 



verse, regularly and sharply 7-keeled ; ears small, round, partly 

 covered by the scales of the temple above and in front ; tail elon- 

 gate, slender, rather compressed. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



b, c. ? Young, in spirits. Chin white, not spotted. Philippines. 



From Mr. Cuming's collection. Perhaps T. rufescens, var. ? 



The Greyish Tiliqua. Tiliqua grisea. 



Olive grey ; scales 6-sided, 3-keeled, dark-sided, forming dark 

 streaks on the back and sides, with an indistinct interrupted pale 

 streak on each side; beneath whitish ; nostril in the centre of the 

 nasal, supranasal triangular, contiguous, internasal broader than 

 long, frontonasal 5-sided, squarish, contiguous ; ears very small, 

 oblong, covered by the ends of the temple-scales in front. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's collection, 



** Tail mid toes short. African. 



The Fernando Po Tiliqua. Tiliqua Fernandi, Burton^ 

 Proc. Z. Soc. i. 37. Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 203. 



Brown, with the dark sides to the scales forming brown streaks; 

 sides dark brown, white-spotted, and with oblique darker cross 

 bands ; chin and beneath brown, with rows of white spots, largest 

 and most distinct on the chin; ears oblong, with a few small den- 

 ticulations in front ; tail thick, tapering, not so long as the body ; 

 toes rather short, thick. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Fernando Po. 



h. Adult, in spirits. Head bruised. Fernando Po. 



41. EuPREPis. Euprepis, part, Wagler, Dum. et Bib. 

 ])Iabouya, part, Fitz. Rachite and Heremites, Cocteau, MSS. 



Nostrils in the hinder edge of the nasal plate, frontoparietal 

 shields 2, or united, supranasal plates 2. Lower eyelid with a 

 transparent disk. Palate with a triangular notch behind, and with 

 Pterygoid teeth. Body fusiform. Limbs strong. Toes 5-5. 

 Scales 2- to 7-keeled. 



* Frontoparietals and interparietal separate. 



t Scales small^ 2-keeled. Far ivith short lobes in front. 



CocTEAu's EuPREPEs. Euprcpis Coctei, Dujn. et Bib. E. G. 

 V. 666. 



Grey, brown, brovvn-varied, yellow-spotted ; scales of the back 

 small, with 2 distinct keels ; ear large, open, with 3 or 4 short lo- 

 bules ; orbit with a series of small scales beneath ; preanal scales 

 6, large ; internasal broad, lozenge-shaped, frontonasal contigu- 

 ous, 5-sided. 



