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covered with tubercular scales and keeled tubercles; interor- 

 bital region deeply concave. Above the eye large, erect scales, 

 forming a kind of horn-like appendage, higher than half the 

 diameter of the eye. On the posterior part of the head a 

 transverse row of larger scales between the posterior borders 



Fig. 48. Phoxophrys tuberculata Hubrecht. 



of the eyes. Behind the eye and at the angle of the mouth 

 large multicarinate tubercles ; ten upper and as many lower 

 labials; throat covered with sharply keeled scales; no gular 

 sac. Body broad, somewhat depressed ; flanks with small im- 

 bricate scales, which have their free borders turned upwards; 

 back with larger multicarinate tubercles, of which three or 

 four on each side of the median line are more prominent. 

 Ventral scales strongly keeled, larger than those on the sides. 

 Tail one time and a half as long as head and body, covered with 

 keeled scales, the inferior ones the largest. Limbs long and 

 slender; digits long an thin, keeled below; the hind limb, laid 

 forwards, reaches the corner of the mouth, the fore limb, laid 

 backwards, does not reach the thigh ; the limbs are covered 

 with strongly keeled scales, intermixed above with larger 

 multicarinate tubercular ones. 



Brown, with indistinct darker variegations; a large dark 

 brown spot on the middle of the head over the supraocular 

 regions, and another on the gular region. Length of head 

 and body 43 mm. (tail broken). 



