116 REPTILES. 



Brown, beneath whitish; ears large, circular, open, with 4 

 very small lobules on the front edge ; scales of the back 3-keeled; 

 interparietal plate none, parietal plate double. 



Inhab. New Guinea, (Mus. Paris, 1 specimen). 



**** Frontoparietal united into one plate. Parietal single, cres- 

 cent-shaped. Interparietal no?ie. Supranasals contiguous. 

 Chioninia. 



Delaland's Chioninia. Euprepis Delalandii, Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. V. 690. Rachite de Delalande, Coct. Tab. 



Chesnut, with a yellow streak upon each side ; ears moderate, 

 oval, open, wiih some lobules in front ; scales of the back 3-keel- 

 ed ; interparietal plate none, parietal plate single ; crescent-shap- 

 ed, truncated at the front end, frontoparietal 6-sided ; tail long, 

 slender ; body rather slender. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. Mus. Paris. 



Belcher's Chioninia. Euprepis Belcheri. 



Brown, with a broad yellow streak on each side; sides dark, 

 with a narrow rather inferior pale streak; scales 3-keeled, small, 

 of the back in 12 longitudinal series; interparietal plate none, 

 parietal plate single, crescent-shaped, truncated at the front end, 

 frontoparietal single, short, vase-shaped, narrow in front, sides 

 concave, broad and rounded behind ; occipitals 2, small. 



a, b. Adult and half-grow^n, in s])irits. Borneo. Presented by 

 Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, K.C., R.N. 



E. Tail round, tapering, unarmed, not keeled above. Scales minute- 

 lif striated longitudinally, and sometimes keeled along the centre, 

 regular, hexangular, fiat. Preanal scales large, scarcely imbri- 

 cate, generally in several series. Diploglossina. 



42. MiCROLEPis, Gray. 



Head depressed, broad behind, head-shields very thin. Nos- 

 trils lateral, in the hinder end of a triangular small distant nasal, 

 just over the suture of the first and second labial. Supranasal 

 plates 2 pair, transverse, internasal veiy small, triangular, fronto- 

 nasal united into one broad plate, frontal elongate, frontoparietal 

 small, far apart, interparietal elongate, parietals 2, moderate. 

 Eyes large. Pupil round. Lower eyelid very short, rudimentary, 

 transparent. Tongue flat, scaly, nicked at the end. Throat co- 

 vered with scales. Ears large, exposed, simple-edged. Toes 5-5, 

 elongate, slender, compressed, unequal, clawed. Legs 4, slender, 

 elongate. Palms and soles warty. Body fusiform, 4-sided. Scales 

 small, sharply keeled, striated. Tail elongate, compressed. 



