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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



The lateral gular folds are quite moderate. The scales above are 

 remarkable for being louger than broad. They are thus very acute- 

 angle<l, decidedly keeled, and sharp, but with little or no projecting 

 niucro. They are notched on each side tiie point above, very few of 

 them on the belly, more on the chin. There are about thirty-nine or 

 forty scales encircling the thickest part of the body. The legs are very 

 short; the hind feet only about one and one-fourth times the head from 

 snout to end of occipital plates. The scales on the inside of tibia and 

 behind anus are smooth. There are about fourteen femoral pores. 



The colors resemble much those of S. graciosus. The ground color 

 above is olivaceous gray. There is a well defined and narrow line of 



Fig. C8. 



SCELOPORUS SCALAKISJ WlUGJIANN. 

 Xi. 



Cat. No. s:iS4, U.S.N. M. 



yellowish white on each side the back, beginning distinctly on llie 

 temples in a line with the superciliary ridge. This occupies Ihe center 

 only of a single row of scales, the outer portion of which, and to a cer- 

 tain extent the inner also, is traversed by a well-marked line of black. 

 These lines are separated on the back by six rows of scales. A cen- 

 tral light, ashy stripe one and two half scales wide traverses the back, 

 and on each side of these is a series of U shaped blotches (about fif- 

 teen from head to above anus), bordered externally by the light lines. 

 There is a second series of U's on the side, bounded below by a second 

 interrupted yellow line on the adjacent half rows, the upper one being 



