CROi'ODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SXAKES. 



463 



hinder part ul' the rostral, divided longitudinally by a sliallow groove, 

 and possibly indicating a fusion with an intcrnasal or nasal plate. The 

 eyes are very large and much exposed; the eyelids appear to be 

 annular, the lower entering completely within the orbital cavity. The 

 ears are very small and circular. 



The head and upper part of neck, except as described, are covered 

 with uniform tubercles, which become a little larger anteriorly. The 

 upper parts and sides of body are covered with (piite large, imbricated, 

 acute, angular, and strongly carinated scales, of which there appear to 

 be about thirty across back and sides. On the belly the scales are a 

 little smaller, hexagonal, and smooth — about twenty in an oblique 

 series. About lifteen ridges maybe counted above between the hind legs. 

 The scales in front of the pubes are coarser, thicker, and more tubercular 

 than more anteriorly. The scales above and behind the fore leg, on the 

 side of the neck, in front of the hind leg, and on the posterior face of 



Fig. 85. 



SpH.KKODACTVI.IS NOTATL'S ]{AIUI) 



;\ 2. 

 Florida. 



Cat. No. 321(5, U.S.N. M. 



fore leg and of thigh are small, even, and granular, like those back of 

 the head. The upper and outer surfaces of the legs are covered Avith 

 large, acute, carinated scales. The tail is cylindrical, as long as body 

 (alive), constricted at base, and finely whorled, the scales in under sur- 

 face broader. There are no pores about the anus nor spines at the 

 base of tail, as far as can be perceived. The legs are short, the digits 

 broad, depressed, and without any claws, each one expanded at the end 

 into a plain circular snbliemispherical depressed pad, plane on the 

 under surface; the digits anterior to this transversely lamellated. 



This species iu its large and strongly carinated scales, about of equal 

 size, differs widely from all those described by Dunn-ril and Bibron, but 

 approaches the >S. richardsoitii of Gray.' The colors, however, are 

 entirely different. 



Specimens from Chiba collected by Charles Wright are very similar 

 in character generally, but appear to have a more slender head and 



'Catalogue of the Lizard Collection in the British Museum, p. 

 America." 



168. From 



