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larged keeled scales which converge and meet at the base of the 

 tail ; lateral scales very heterogeneous, the larger tiiberculated ones 

 usually forming transverse rows, the ones at the insertion of the 

 legs very minute, almost granular as are those in the bottom of the 

 fold on the side of the neck; leg scales of varying size, all sharply 

 keeled, the larger ones grouped in a patch each on upper and lower 

 arms, thighs and femurs, the largest ones on the hind legs forming 

 pointed tubercles larger than any on the back; scales on underside 

 all pointed, sharply unicarinate, except under digits which are 

 pluricarinate ; tail scales fairly homogeneous, unicarinate, pointed 

 above, a few enlarged ones above at the base. Color (in alcohol) 

 above brownish gray with large ill-defined dusky cross patches 

 on occiput and back separated by narrow pale cross bars equally 

 ill-defined; a broad pale band, narrowly edged with black, acro&s 



Fig. 1. — Phoxophrys grahami. Type. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 6550o. 2 X nat. sizb 



forehead and supraoculars, preceded by a dark brown triangular 

 mark which cuts angularly into the pale band; a dark brown band 

 from orbit to angle of mouth and base of lower jaw, preceded by a 

 pale band; lower jaw with alternating bands of pale and brown; 

 legs and tail cross banded with dusky; a whitish, black-edged spot 

 on each laiee; underside pale gray speckled with dusky on throat. 



DIMENSIONS ,„„j^ 



Total length ^ 134 



Snout to vent 51 



Vent to tip of tail 83 • 



Snout to center of eye 8. 5 



Greatest width of head 12 



Fore leg 24 



Hind leg 35 



Remarks. — The genus Phoxophrys was based by Doctor Hub- 

 recht ^^ upon a single specimen collected in Sumatra, which he named 



"Note® Leyden Mus., vol. 3, 1881, p. 51. 



