﻿L. G. ANDERSSON, TWO NEW LIZARDS FROM CALEDONIA 



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granulated, separated from tlie frontal and frontoparietal by 

 a semicircle of four or five supraoculars, tlie anterior the 

 very largest. The temporal region granulated, with a few 

 large and small plates. 7 upper. labials, the 5:th, 6:th and 

 7:th very small and below the eye; 6 lower labials. A tra- 

 pezoid mental and a postmental, separating the first lower 

 labials ; behind the postmental a few irregular chinshields, 

 merging behind in the gular granules. On the nuchal region 

 we find among the granules a transverse series of five small 

 round plates, the middle ones of which are subconical and fol- 

 lowed behind by some others of the same shape, posteriorly 

 arranged in pairs. The nostril rather large and round, pier- 

 ced between the rostral, the first labial, the nasal and the 



Fig. 1. FAirydactijlns sijnimetriciis n. sp. 

 (I. Upper view of head, ^/2; b. Profile of head, 'Va; c. The mental region, 



d. Ear-opening, */i. 



small lower postnasal. The external ear-opening is a long 

 narrow slit between two dermal folds, covering a large cavity, 

 in the bottom of which there is a vertically enlarged interiör 

 ear-opening. From the anterior corner of the ear-opening runs 

 a narrow but distinct groove to the angle of mouth. Neither 

 Sauvage nor Boulenger mention anything about this. Pro- 

 bably, however, it exist also in E. vieillardi ; in the opposite 

 case, the differences between the two forms should be greater 

 than shown by other characters. Two faint transversal gular 

 folds and two lateral ones, separating the granulated gular 

 region from the larger scales, bordering the lower labials. 

 Colour (in alcohol) yellowish w^hite, with dark reticula- 

 tions, forming broad irregular cross-bands: viz., one on the 

 nuchal region, two on the back. one on the base of the tail, 



