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followed by three long and narrow superciliaries and two small ter- 

 minal ones; six distinctly ridged supraoculars separated from the 

 superciliaries anteriorly by 2 rows of small keeled scales and posteriorly 

 by but one row, and from the frontals by a single row ; occipital small, 

 bordered by two distinct pairs of parietals on each side; the inner 

 about four times the size of the occipital and a little larger than the 

 outer; an enlarged latero-nuchal scale beyond the outer parietal which 

 is almost half its area; four upper and five lower labials to a point 

 below the center of the eye; temporal scales increasing gradually in 

 size, the last one, just above and in front of the ear, the largest and 

 most conspicuous; anterior border of the ear with five coarse projecting 

 scales, the middle ones the largest. Dorsal scales large, imbricate and 

 moderately mucronate; laterals considerably smaller than the dorsals; 

 ventrals equal to or slightly larger than the dorsals, smooth, their 

 posterior edges denticulate; about 50 scales around the middle of the 

 body; about 56 scales from the occiput to a point dhectly above the 

 vent, about 14 dorsal scales the equivalent of the distance from snout 

 to occiput; nuchal scales small, those on the sides of the neck like 

 the dorsals, those beliind the ear keeled and imbricate, not granular. 

 Shoulder folds present; no lateral folds. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches to half-way between the ear and the eye. Digits compressed; 

 the fourth toe with 24 tricarinate lamellae. A distinct crest beginning 

 on the occiput, equally developed on the back and on the proximal 

 portion of the tail but decreasing as the tail tapers; the other caudal 

 scales keeled and mucronate; no verticils. The keels of the lateral 

 and dorsal scales are directed upwards and backwards so that the 

 scale-rows converge strongly on the back. Tail highly compressed. 

 A pair of enlarged post-anals in the male. 



"Dimensions. — Snout to vent, 64 mm.; head to posterior ear, 16.5 

 mm.; tail, 92 mm.; foreleg, 25 mm.; hindleg, 48 mm,; width of head, 

 13 mm. 



"Color in alcohol. — Body color sage green above, pale china blue 

 to Nile blue below; very faint indications of sepia crossbars on the 

 nape of the neck; the body-scales above and below the light dorso- 

 lateral line with sepia posterior borders, darker towards the center of 

 the back than on the sides of the body; tail with faint indications of 

 sepia crossbars at regular Intervals; limbs without bars or spots, 

 but each scale having a powdering of minute sepia spots on its pos- 

 terior margin; mental shield and lower lips sepia; remainder of throat 

 pale china blue with a few very minute pale brown spots confined 

 mostly to single scales; sides of head from tip of snout to above the 

 ear sepia, with two large pea-green spots below the eye; a small 

 b^o^vn spot just behind the ear; top of head olive, with irregular 

 darker markings on most of the scales. 



