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interorbital region concave, no frontal ridges ; npper head-scales very small, 

 rugose ; scales of tlie supraorbital semicircles scarcely enlarged, separated by 

 tive series of scales ; ten to twelve enlarged, tricarinate, supraocular scales, 

 separated from tlie supraorbitals Ijy a series of granules ; occipital not 

 enlarged ; cantlius rostralis feebly marked, no enlarged canthal scales ; loreal 

 rows six ; seven labials to below the centre of the eye ; ear-opening moderate, 

 oval. Oular appendage absent ( 9 )• Body slightly compressed. Scales very 

 small, granular, smooth, e(|ual on the l)ack and sides ; veutrals very small, 

 larger than dorsals, granular, smooth. The adpressed hind limb reaches 

 between the ear and the orbit ; digits moderately dilated ; 1 8 lamellae under 

 phalanges II and III of the fourth toe. Tail cylindrical, covered above with 

 small ecjiial feebly-keeled scales ; its length almost thrice that of head and 

 liody. Dull lilac above, minutely and indistinctly speckled with blackish ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



5. A. stiijmoms, Bocourt, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, v, ] 869, Bull. p. 48. 



Hab. Tanti (1890 feet). One ? specimen. 



6. Liocephalus trachiicephalux, (A. Dum.). Holotropis tnichijccpludus, A. Dum., 



Cat. Meth. Rept, p. 76. 

 Hah. Otovalo (8460 feet) ; between Quito and Guallabamba (8500 feet) ; 

 l)etween Guallabamba and Guachala (8000 feet) ; Amliato (8606 feet) ; 

 Machachi (9-10,000 feet); La Dormida, Cayambe mountain (11,800 feet); 

 anJ Hacienda de la Rosai'io, on tlie lower slopes of Illiuiza (10,356 feet). 

 TAventy-five specimens. 



7. L. iridcscens, Gthr. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 409, pi. xx, hg. B. 



Hah. (luayaquil. One sjiecimen. 



8. Ameiva sejifrmlineafa, A. Dum., Cat. Meth. Rept., ]>. 1 1 2. Ameiva sexscnfata, 



Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 402. 

 Hah. Tanti (1890 feet). Two specimens ( ? and li. gr.). 



9. Ecpjleoims (PholkhJiolus) montium., Peters, Abh. Berl. Ac, 1862, p. 196, 



pi. ii, fig. 3. 

 Hah. Hacienda Olalla (8500 feet) ; Chillo (9000 feet) ; and lower shjpes 

 of Pichincha (11,000 feet). Nine specimens. 



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