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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TAKYDROMUS SMARAGDINUS" Boulenger. 



I84S. 



1887 



Tnchysaiints japonicus Adams, Narml. Voy. Satnaraiui, II, j). ."^05 ("Miaro- 

 sliimas") (not of Duuieril and liihron, 18:i9). 



Tarhjdromus sinurdgdinus BovLKNfeiEK, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mu!^., Ill, p. 509 

 (type-lucality. "Loochoo Islands;" types in Brit. Mus.; Fryer collection); 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 147, pi. xvii, fig. 2; pi. xviii, fig. 1 

 (Loochoo). — GuENTHER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (G), I, Mar. 1888, p. 168 

 (Loochoo lis.). — Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 70 (Okinawa). — 

 Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 859; author's separate, p. 10 

 (Okinawa).— BoETTGER, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-30 Ber., 1895, p. 

 107 (Okinawa shima).— Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1902, June 11, p. 184 

 (0-shima or Okinawa shima). — Schenkel, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 

 XIII, Pt. 1, p. 180 (Okinawa). 



Description (figs. 203-204) .—Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 16361 ; Great- 

 Loo Choo Island; May, 1853; W. Heme, collector. Rostral not in 

 203 contact with internasal, the anterior nasals being in 



contact behind the rostral; posterior loreal twice 

 as large as anterior; internasal longer than broad, 

 shorter than prefrontals which are more than three- 

 fifths and less than three-fourths the length of the 

 frontal; two large supraoculars in contact with 

 frontal; a small posterior supraocular in contact 

 with f ronto-parietals ; supraoculars separated from 

 the posterior superciliaries by a single row of gran- 

 ules, the anterior superciliary, which is very long, 

 being in contact with the anterior supraocular 

 throughout its whole length; a small shield in front 

 of first supraocular, separating it from the poste- 

 rior loreal; fi'onto-parietals longer than internasal, 

 as long as prefrontals ; parietals longer than fron- 

 tal; interparietal small, very much smaller than 

 Figs. 203-204.— takydro- anterior supraocular ; occipital small, scarcely larger 

 Mus SMARAGDINUS. 2 X tlian postcHor supraocular; nine supralabials, of 



NAT. SIZE. 203, UNDER- 1 • 1 • . 1 / • W • 1 nt4.l 1 ti. • 1 x • 



SIDE OF head; 204, IN- which sixth (ou right side, ntth on left side) is 

 GuiNAL REGION. No. ^;n(^ei' thc cvc, aiid much longer and higher than 



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the others, its anterior portion overlying the labial 

 anterior to it; temporals small, slightly keeled, about 12 in a row 

 between orbit and ear-opening; an elongated narrow shield along the 

 anterior portion of the outer edge of parietals; three pairs of chin- 

 shields, increasing in size posteriorly, only first pair in contact through- 

 out, second pair posteriorly separated by a single elongated scale; 

 dorsal scales in eight longitudinal series of larger scales, four on each 

 side, and two median rows of smaller scales, all keeled, the keels of the 

 larger scales forming continuous, nearly parallel ridges, five of the large 

 dorsals corresponding in length to four ventral plates ; laterals granu- 



« From djLiapdySivoi, emerald green. 



