LÖNNBERG & ANDERSSON, A NEW LIZARD AND A NEW FROG 9 



touch them; it appears thus very remarkable that the lizard 

 shall be able to swallow them without being hurt by their 

 defensive weapons.» 



Nototrema microdiscus L. G. Andersson. 



The tongue is small, subcircular and distinctly nicked 

 behind. The vomerine teeth are placed in two oblique series 

 between the small round choanse. The head is of moderate 

 size and has the derm completely involved in a faintly 

 rugose cranial ossification, which extends to a semicircular 

 line, running between the posterior borders of the or bits with 

 the convexity behind. Only the upper eyelids, the tip of the 

 snout and a narrow strip of the free börder of the upper lip 

 are soft. The ossification forms no casque nor any ridges as 

 in N. oviferum Gthr. The snout is rounded, distinctly 

 longer than the orbital diameter; the canthus rostralis is 

 angular and the loreal region high and slightly concave. The 

 nostril is situated near the tip of the snout, its distance from 

 the eye being as large as the orbital diameter. The inter- 

 orbital space is considerably broader than the upper eyeHd; 

 in the male the tympanum is very distinct, in the female its 

 hind börder evanishes into the sldn, in the latter it is V2, 

 in the former more than V2 of the orbital diameter. A faint 

 ridge is to be seen above the tympanum. 



The first finger is as long as the second; the fingers are 

 slightly webbed at the base, the web extending as narrow d er- 

 mal folds to the small disks. Toes half webbed; on the 4th 

 toe the web is attached to the third distal joint, on the inner 

 side at its base on the outer side at its middle. The disks of 

 the toes are small, somewhat smaller than those of the fingers, 

 which are not larger than half the tympanum. There is a 

 small oval inner me tatarsal tuber cle, no outer. The hind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibiotarsal 

 articulation almost reaches to the tip of the snout. 



The skin is minutely granulate on the upper parts, on the 

 sides, the chin, the belly, and on the thighs it is coarsely 

 granulate. 



The colour in spirit: The body above is reddish yellow 

 with small black döts and large brown spöts, bordered with 



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