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touching the loreal, the third only partly separated from the fronto- 

 parietals by granules; six or seven superciliaries, the two anterior ones 

 in contact with the first supraocular, the remaining superciliaries sepa- 

 rated from the other supraoculars by two rows of granules; two fronto- 

 parietals, followed by a row of five occipitals, the median shorter but 

 wider than the two adjoining it, these in turn followed by about three 

 rows of very unequal postoccipitals; ear opening large; five upper 

 labials to a point directly beneath the center of the eye, the third 

 and fourth the longest; five lower labials to the same point, 

 the third and fourth the longest; the wedge of granular scales 

 on the chin scarcely extending between first pair of chin shields 

 which are broadly in contact; chin and throat covered with granular 

 scales, those of the central gular region enlarged, but gradually merg- 

 ing into the small ones;mesoptychium covered with about four irreg- 

 ular rows of enlarged scales which are not larger than those on the 

 central gular region. Dorsal scales granular, uniform, about 79 in 

 the standard distance from tip of snout to center of eye; laterals 

 similar but smaller. Ventral plates in 12 longitudinal series, the outer 

 row less than half the area of the inner adjacent one and bounded on 

 its outer border by large granular scales; 37 transverse series. Brachial 

 scales conspicuously enlarged, arranged in three regular rows each 

 composed of about six scales, which are as wide as long; postbrachials 

 appearing as a patch of about a dozen scales considerably larger than 

 the surrounding granules; antebrachials in three rows of enlarged 

 scales, the widest row having four or five large straplike scales across 

 the wrist; brachials and antebrachials well separated by numbers of 

 small scales; femoral pores 19 and 21; anterior face of thigh covered 

 with (five to nine) rows of enlarged flat scales; four tibial rows, the 

 external row composed of six scales of which the second and third are 

 much larger than the others; no enlarged postanals; a row of about 10 

 very unequally enlarged scales in front of the anus, the median pair 

 and the outer ones the smallest; a single very large scale in front of the 

 small median pair, surrounded by several smaller scales; 39 scales in 

 the fifteenth verticil of the tail. The hindleg being adpressed, the 

 fourth toe reaches to halfway between ear and tympanum. Hands 

 and feet long and slender; the small combs very evident on the toes; 

 fourth toe with 43 lamellae beneath it; fifth toe slightly larger than 

 first. Tail nearly two and one-half times the length of the head and 

 body, not noticeably depressed in its proximal portion; the scales 

 straight, strongly keeled above, faintly on the sides and beneath on the 

 distal portion. 



Dimensions: Head and body, 112 mm.; tail, 275 mm. 



Color (in alcohol): Ground color of body and limbs slate-black 

 above to dull Nile blue on the belly, turning to olive-buff on lower 

 surfaces of hindlegs and tail; upper surfaces of body and limbs with 



