444 



REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



labials acutely angular, but not produced. One series of eidarged 

 g'ulars, terminating in a few produced .scales. On the side of the neck 

 two short series of shortly conic enlarged scales, which form together 

 a V, with open apex directed posteriorly. Supraorbitals separated by 

 one or two rows of small scales. Three enlarged scales posterior to 

 the parietal. 



On each side of the dorsal middle line about five series of enlarged 

 scales, which are keeled, and with the posteriorly directed apex little 

 prominent and the base surrounded by a circle of scales of medium size. 

 Dorsal s(;ales ilat, nearly or quite smooth, the median larger thau the 

 lateral. A fringe of prominent acute scales along the lateral edge of the 



Fig. 81. 



ANOTA J'LATYBHINA (ilRARU. 



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 Utah. 



C.Hl. No. .V344, IT.S.N.W. 



body, with large flat ones at their dorsal bases and small ones between 

 them and the veiitrals. Veutrals about equal to median dorsals and, 

 like all the scales of the inferior vsurfaces. including the tibials, smooth. 

 Scales of external surfaces of limbs of irregular sizes ; a ju^ojecting series 

 along tlie front of each humerus and femur. Tail with a lateral fringe 

 of conic scales, and large ones at intervals on the superior surface. 

 Lateral scales of digits moderately elongate. 



The tail is about twice as long as the head withcmt the horns. Tlie 

 appressed hind leg reaches, or more frequently falls short of, the axilla. 

 It is the shortest-legged species of the genus. Femoral iioros 7 or S on 

 each side. 



Mvasuremetits. — Total length, IL'C min. : leugtii to vent, 8(3 mm.; length 



