92 



Light above with broad brown cross bands on back and tail; 

 head marmorated with brown Length of head and body J'j 

 mm.; tail 103 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra! (Padang?). 



The type-specimen, the only one known, is in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



4. Japalura Gray. 



(Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) XII p. 387, 1853). 



Body compressed, covered with unequal scales. Tympanum 

 hidden. An oblique fold in front of the shoulder; gular fold 

 present or absent; gular sac small or absent. A dorsal crest. 

 Tail slightly compressed. No praeanal or femoral pores. 



Distribution. The East Indies; Southern China. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Snout short, nearly as long as the diameter of 

 the orbit ; canthus rostralis rounded ; a small coni- 

 cal rostral appendage !• ^> oniala^ p. 92. 



B. Snout very short, shorter than the diameter of 

 the orbit; canthus rostralis angular; no rostral 



appendage 2. y. nigrilabris^ p. 93. 



I. Japalura ornata Lidth. 



Japalura ornata^ v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XV 1893, p. 251. 



Snout nearly as long as the diameter of the orbit, with 

 rounded canthus rostralis. A small, conical rostral appendage, 

 lying backwards on the upper part of the head, it measures 

 2.5 mm. and is covered with small imbricate scales. Tympanum 

 hidden; seven upper and lower labials. A transverse gular fold 

 and an oblique one in front of the shoulder; a slight nuchal 

 crest. Body compressed, covered with keeled, unequal scales, 

 a slight dorsal crest. Limbs very long, especially the hind ones; 

 fifth toe nearly as long as third, much longer than first. 



Brownish-red above with small light spots below the eyes. 

 Dark radiating lines from the eye to the upper lip. Length 

 of head and body 57 mm.; (tail broken). 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Sandakan Bay!, Upper-Mahakkam river 1, 

 Kina Balu). 



