LIZARDS. 185 



Head moderate, top of the muzzle bluntly triangular ; body 

 reddish brown above, with a row of black spots on the upper part 

 of the back, belly reddish. 



Inhab. Brazils. Mus. Berlin. 



The Waved Ecphymote. Ecphymotes undulatus. Laemanc- 

 tus undulatus, Weigm. H. Mex. 46. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 7. 



Head moderate ; tip of the muzzle obtusely triangular; body 

 olive ash, with 2 wavy black brown lateral bands, edged beneath 

 with white. 



Inhab. Brazils. Mus. Berlin. 



The Blunt-headed Ecphymote. Ecphymotes obtusirostris. 

 Laemanctus obtusirostris, Weigm. H. Mex. iv. 75. Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. iv. 75. 



Muzzle broad, rather truncated, above subtrapezoid; body 

 brownish ash, brown-spotted, abdomen yellow ashy. 



Inhab. Mexico. Mus. Berlin. 



** Tail compressed. 



The Ecphymote. Ecphymotes acutirostris, Fitz. Vers. 49. 

 Polychrus acutirostris, Spix, Braz. t. 14 a. Waglei\ Syst. 149. 

 Schinz. Rept. t. 28, /. 2. Weigm. H. M. Dum. et Bib. E. G. 

 iv. 7b. 



Head long, pointed in front ; scales of the back large, flat. 



Inhab. Brazil. Mus. Berl. 



5. L^MANCTUs, part, Weigm. 



Head 4-sided, covered with scales. Crown shelving 



forwards, broad, rounded behind. Nostril lateral, rather distant 

 from the end of the nose. Neck with a cross plait in front of the 

 chest. Palate not toothed. Body compressed. Scales rhombic, 

 imbricate, keeled, of the sides placed in cross series- Toes slender, 

 elongate, the fourth longer than the third, with a series of tuber- 

 cles beneath. Femoral pores none. Hind legs and feet very long. 

 Tail round, elongate, tapering, covered with lozenge-shaped keel- 

 ed scales. Back and tail not crested. 



The Long-legged L^manctus. Laemanctus longipes, 

 Weigm. Herp. Mex. 46, t. 4. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 72. 



Purplish red, brown banded, beneath orange ; scales of the 

 back large, rhombic. 



Inhab. Mexico. Mus. Berlin. 



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